33-Hour BGP Hijack of Softaculous Traffic Prompts Security Scramble
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33-hour BGP hijack of Softaculous traffic prompts security scramble
Hosting software vendor tells customers to reset credentials and hunt for malicious packages
A hijacking of BGP routes diverted part of Softaculous traffic to infrastructure controlled by an attacker for approximately 33 hours, including Virtualizor updates. The company indicated that a small number of servers received malicious packages and asked their customers to rotate credentials, review systems and preserve evidence.
BGP Hijack Diverts Softaculous Traffic to Deliver Malicious Virtualizor Update
Attackers hijacked BGP routing for Softaculous last week and delivered a malicious Virtualizor update to a handful of hypervisor servers, according to a vendor incident report. Hosting providers use Virtualizor to manage VPS nodes on KVM, Xen, LXC, OpenVZ, and Proxmox, and a single master can control hundreds of virtualization servers, placing a poisoned update […] The post BGP Hijack Diverts Softaculous Traffic to Deliver Malicious Virtualizor …
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