An Attacker Hijacked Hetzner IP Space and Poisoned a Virtualizor Update

For roughly 22 hours across two late-August nights, internet traffic bound for the infrastructure of Softaculous, the company behind the app auto-installer of the same name and the Virtualizor VPS management panel, was intermittently diverted to a server controlled by an attacker. The company’s security advisory, published August 31, reconstructs the incident from public routing data and does not…