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VMware

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Broadcom’s roughly $69 billion VMware acquisition has recast coverage around licensing backlash, regulatory scrutiny and security flaws in its virtualization stack.

Who they are

VMware is an enterprise infrastructure-software company best known in this coverage for virtualization products, including desktop hypervisors Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro, and for its former ownership of SD-WAN provider VeloCloud. It appears increasingly as Broadcom’s cloud-software subsidiary following Broadcom’s completed acquisition in November 2023.

The recent arc

The latest sustained coverage is post-acquisition and peaked most recently in 2024Q4, shifting attention from the deal itself to the consequences of Broadcom’s control. VMware made Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro free for personal use in May 2024, while later stories tracked Broadcom’s position in major-tech deal comparisons and its effort to define VMware as a “sovereign” alternative to Big Tech cloud services, as described by CEO Hock Tan in the Financial Times.

The tension

Coverage centers on whether Broadcom’s ownership makes VMware a stronger enterprise-cloud alternative or concentrates too much power over customers. That tension is visible in customer backlash discussed by Tan, cease-and-desist letters sent to owners of perpetual VMware licenses with expired support contracts, and CISPE’s EU complaint arguing that approval of the $61 billion buyout lacked safeguards against market-power abuse. VMware also remains exposed to operational trust issues: Broadcom patched three zero-days, found by Microsoft, that attackers could chain to escape a virtual machine sandbox.

Why it matters

VMware sits at a consequential boundary between organizations’ on-premises systems and cloud strategy, so changes to its licensing, support and product direction can affect customers’ ability to retain or move their infrastructure. If Broadcom can sustain its sovereign-cloud positioning while addressing security and customer concerns, VMware may remain a meaningful counterweight to large cloud providers; continued licensing conflict and regulatory pressure could instead accelerate customers’ search for alternatives.

VMware has appeared in 159 articles since 2015-01. Coverage peaked in 2024Q4 with 6 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Broadcom, Dell, EMC, Microsoft.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-05-18
SecurityWeek 21 related

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: participants earned a total of $1,298,250 for 47 vulnerabilities, with successful exploits of AI products like Codex, Cursor, and LM Studio

Participants demonstrated exploits for Windows, Linux, VMware, Nvidia, and AI products. … Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 has come to an end …

2025-03-06
BleepingComputer 35 related

Broadcom fixes three VMware zero-days exploited in the wild found by Microsoft; attackers with admin or root access can chain the flaws to escape a VM's sandbox

Broadcom warned customers today about three VMware zero-days, tagged as exploited in attacks and reported by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center.

2024-02-27
BleepingComputer 8 related

Researchers detail a spam campaign using 21K hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from brands like eBay, MSN, and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily

A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to send …

2023-02-07
CSO 13 related

The US, France, Italy, and others warn about a ransomware attack on VMware ESXi servers, despite a February 2021 patch; Censys: 3,200+ servers have been hacked

Description OpenSLP as used in ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1c-17325551 … Edward Hawkins / VMware Security Blog : VMware Security Response Center (vSRC) Response to ‘ESXiArgs’ Ransomware Attacks Elvira Pol...

2022-09-30
Wired 3 related

VMware and Google's Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware's virtualization software on multiple targets' networks

Andy Greenberg / Wired :

2022-05-19
Ars Technica 25 related

The CISA orders US federal civilian agencies to patch or remove VMware products affected by a critical RCE vulnerability that hackers are actively exploiting

Security flaws in VMware and F5's BIG-IP are being exploited by malicious hackers.  —  Malicious hackers, some believed to be state-backed … Source: CISA , VMware , CISA , and CISA .

2021-09-22
The Register 10 related

VMware urges customers to immediately patch a critical arbitrary file upload vulnerability in its flagship vCenter and vSphere products

File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server  —  VMware has disclosed a critical bug in its flagship vSphere and vCenter products and urged users to drop everything and patch it. Source: VMw...

2021-05-26
Ars Technica 7 related

VMware patches a new bug in vCenter Server, a virtualization management product used by an estimated 43K organizations, that could allow remote code execution

Patch Now! Antonia Din / Heimdal Security Blog : Critical Flaw Is Impacting All vCenter Server Deployments, VMware Alerts Simon Sharwood / The Register : VMware reveals critical vCenter hole it says ‘...

2021-02-26
Ars Technica 3 related

Researchers detected mass scanning activity targeting VMware vCenter servers vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability; VMware has issued a patch

Thousands of servers running vCenter server could be in for a nasty surprise.  —  Hackers are mass-scanning the Internet in search …

2020-12-22
Wall Street Journal 10 related

Analysis finds 24+ organizations that installed SolarWinds code, including Cisco, Intel, Nvidia, VMware, Belkin, a CA hospital, and Kent State university

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2024Q2enterprise -17pts; safety +50pts; consumer +67pts
2024Q4enterprise +30pts; safety -50pts; consumer -60pts
2025Q1enterprise -30pts; consumer -40pts; funding -60pts

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