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The Softaculous BGP hijack nobody's monitoring caught

Between 28 and 30 August 2026, the licensing and update infrastructure behind the Virtualizor, Webuzo and Softaculous control panels was hijacked at the routing layer. I first reconstructed what happened from public routing data, while it was still just a set of anomalies with no official word. Softaculous and Virtualizor have since confirmed the hijack

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