{
  "id": 5098279,
  "title": "BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/bgp-hijack-delivers-malicious-virtualizor-update-that-establishes",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-02T13:12:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/bgp-hijack-delivers-malicious.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}