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> BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 02/09/2026 13:12] [LANGUAGE: EN]
BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access
Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some installations. A hosting-provider account separately said 5 of its 34 checked Virtualizor hypervisors sustained root-level compromise. The incident window ran from approximately August 28 at 20:57
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