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BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access

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Hackers used a BGP hijack to redirect traffic and distribute a malicious update to Virtualizor installations, resulting in root-level compromise.

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Virtualizor

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  • “This affected a handful of servers rather than the general Virtualizor user base”
    [1]The Hacker News· 2 Sept

AlbaHost

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  • “We can confirm that 5 of our 34 Virtualizor hypervisor nodes contained the same malicious modifications described in this thread”
    [1]The Hacker News· 2 Sept

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