A New Player in the Ransomware Game - Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their tactics, and the latest twist is something that should make every IT and cloud administrator sit up. A new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform called shinysp1d3r has surfaced, and unlike traditional ransomware that usually hits Windows endpoints, this one goes straight for the jugular—VMware ESXi hypervisors and their datastores.