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New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic

The Hacker News·September 4, 2026·1 min read
New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic

A previously undocumented Linux toolkit named 'ted' was found compiled into trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, intercepting web traffic and serving altered pages. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, requiring prior code execution on the host.

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