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Web Traffic Hijacking: When Your Nginx Configuration Turns Malicious

Datadog documents an active campaign hijacking web traffic via tampered NGINX configs and compromised Baota management panels — with IOCs to check against your own reverse-proxy infrastructure.

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Filed by Datadog Security Labs4 February 20261 min readRead at source ↗

Datadog Security Research has identified an active web traffic hijacking campaign that targets NGINX installations and management panels like Baota (BT). In this post, we provide our analysis of the techniques this campaign uses and share indicators of compromise you can check for in your NGINX configurations.

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Why it matters

NGINX serves as the reverse proxy for a large share of European web applications; configuration-level compromise is stealthy and can persist through standard OS-level security scans.

What to do

Audit your NGINX configurations and management panel access for the published IOCs, and implement file-integrity monitoring on reverse-proxy config files.

Board brief

Attackers are silently hijacking web traffic by modifying server configurations — a risk that standard endpoint security may not detect.

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