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

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

The Hacker News · Sep 04, 2026

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New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
Security September 4, 2026

A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, and installing it requires code execution on the host and

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