RansomHub’s ESXi Encryptor Flaw: The Hilarious Bug That Saves VMware Servers from Encryption Chaos

Facing RansomHub’s ESXi menace? Outsmart it with a simple trick: craft a ‘/tmp/app.pid’ file set to ‘-1’ and watch the ransomware spiral into a comedy of errors—an endless loop of futile fury.

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Oh, RansomHub, you tech-savvy plunderers of the virtual realm, you've outdone yourselves with a Linux encryptor for the ESXi elite. But like a supervillain foiled by forgetting to lock the backdoor, you've left a bug so simple, it turns your sinister software into a hamster wheel of futility. It's like watching Wile E. Coyote finally catch the Road Runner, only to realize he's allergic to birds.

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