Virtualizing servers and desktops can bring enormous business benefits, but are virtual machines more secure than physical machines? The answer is no. While there may be a handful of attack vectors to which VMs are less prone – ransomeware threats to virtual servers, for example – VMs are just as vulnerable to most forms of malware, including malicious email attachments, drive-by-downloads, botnet Trojans, networks worms and even targeted ‘spearphishing’ attacks.
