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Digital Pirates: How Russia, China, and Cyber-Gangs Can Hijack a Supertanker and Collapse Global Trade

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          🌍 Geopolitical & OT Security Analysis           Digital Pirates: How Russia, China, and Cyber-Gangs Can Hijack a Supertanker and Collapse Global Trade         By CyberDudeBivash • October 03, 2025 • Strategic Threat Report         cyberdudebivash.com |       cyberbivash.blogspot.com           Disclosure: This is a strategic analysis for leaders in government, defense, and critical infrastructure sectors. It contains affiliate links to relevant security solutions and training. Your support helps fund our independent research.   Executive Briefing: Table of Contents       Chapter 1: The 21st Century Chokepoint — A New Era of Piracy     Chapter 2: The Floating Datacenter — A Supertanker's Attack Surface     Chapter 3: The Kill Chain — From a Phished Captain to a Hijacked Rudde...

VMware Root Takeover: Full Breakdown of the Privilege Escalation Zero-Day in Aria Operations & Tools

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        VMware Root Takeover: Full Breakdown of the Zero-Day Privilege Escalation in Aria Operations & Tools (CVE-2025-77889)     By CyberDudeBivash • October 01, 2025, 08:05 PM IST • Urgent Zero-Day Alert   A critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as **CVE-2025-77889**, is reportedly being exploited to turn VMware's own management tools into a weapon for mass compromise. The flaw is a **privilege escalation** that allows a low-privileged user in VMware Aria Operations to execute commands as `root` on any guest virtual machine running VMware Tools. This is a devastating attack chain that turns a seemingly harmless, read-only monitoring account into the key to a full-scale data center takeover. With no official patch available yet, any organization using Aria Operations for VM management is at risk. This is our complete breakdown of the attack and the immediate compensating controls you must implement to protect your infrastructure. ...