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Outage in Scaleway

[ESXi] Security breach discovered

Resolved Minor
February 03, 2023 - Started over 3 years ago - Lasted about 2 months
Official incident page

Incident Report

A security breach has been found for ESXi systems which can lead to a lock of your system. This breach is actively exploited by the attackers at a great scale. While this issue is out of our hands, we strongly advise you to upgrade your system to the latest patch available https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0002.html (link updated Feb.4th 11:30) to prevent security breaches as much as possible. We can't make sure it will help for this one but it will remain the best practice. A detailed version of the alert is available here (French gov. website dealing with cyber attacks): https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/CERTFR-2023-ALE-015/
Components affected
Scaleway Dedibox

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RESOLVED over 3 years ago - at 03/23/2023 05:27PM

This incident has been resolved.

INVESTIGATING over 3 years ago - at 02/03/2023 01:22PM

A security breach has been found for ESXi systems which can lead to a lock of your system. This breach is actively exploited by the attackers at a great scale.

While this issue is out of our hands, we strongly advise you to upgrade your system to the latest patch available https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0002.html (link updated Feb.4th 11:30) to prevent security breaches as much as possible.

We can't make sure it will help for this one but it will remain the best practice.

A detailed version of the alert is available here (French gov. website dealing with cyber attacks):
https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/CERTFR-2023-ALE-015/

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