WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. cybersecurity watchdog agency on Wednesday ordered federal officials to update or remove a slew of products made by digital services company VMWare Inc, saying that hackers were actively using vulnerable versions of the products to break into targeted organizations.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in an advisory that hackers had managed to reverse engineer recent updates made to VMWare products and were using the knowledge to target old versions and hack into unpatched devices.
VMWare did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
(Reporting by Raphael Satter; Editing by Leslie Adler)
