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