Why Hypervisors Are the New-ish Ransomware Target
Bitdefender, Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
One of the greatest challenges in cybersecurity is the constant evolution of threats. While the threat landscape changes frequently, a significant amount of publicly available information is a cumulative summary of threats from the last decade.
This makes it difficult for security professionals to prioritize and focus on the attacks that are happening right now, and not the ones from past years.
This article is part of our initiative to surface the latest threat insights, informing the community about critical and rapidly growing trends. In this case: ransomware attacks that ignore endpoints to target infrastructure directly at the hypervisor level.