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Hackers push malicious Virtualizor update in BGP hijacking attack

Hackers delivered malicious updates to the Virtualizor VPS management software after hijacking BGP routing for its update infrastructure and redirecting update requests to malicious servers.

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Hackers hijacked BGP routing for Virtualizor’s update infrastructure, causing update requests to be redirected to malicious servers that delivered a compromised Virtualizor VPS management software update.

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