{"id":13472,"date":"2023-02-14T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.linphone.org\/?post_type=actualites&#038;p=13472"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:19:35","slug":"press-release-following-the-massive-ransomware-attack-targeting-vmware-esxi-servers","status":"publish","type":"actualites","link":"https:\/\/www.linphone.org\/en\/news\/press-release-following-the-massive-ransomware-attack-targeting-vmware-esxi-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Press release following the massive ransomware attack targeting VMware ESXI servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a massive ransomware attack targeting VMware ESXI servers, one of our machine was infected on Friday 3rd of Februray 2023. We immediately switched off this server impacting the following services:\u00a0download.linphone.org\u00a0for binaries repositories (I.E rpm, maven repo, cocoa pods),\u00a0\u00a0sip8.linphone.org\u00a0an instance of Flexisip sip server running\u00a0sip.linphone.org,\u00a0subscribe.linphone.org\u00a0for sip account management and\u00a0lime.linphone.org\u00a0our public key server used for group chat.<\/p>\n<p>We immediately started rebuilding these servers from backups. Most of the servers were back online by last week. 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