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One cybersecurity expert said the outbreak – thought to have exploited a two-year-old vulnerability in VMWare Inc. – was typical of automated attacks on servers and databases that have been carried out by hackers for years.
VMWare has urged customers to upgrade to the latest versions of its software.
“This is nothing unusual,” said Patrice Auffret, founder of French internet scanning company ONYPHE. “The difference is the scale.”
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