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2026-09-02 The Hacker News

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...

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