DAEMON Tools trojanized in supply-chain attack to deploy backdoor

Hackers trojanized installers for the DAEMON Tools software and since April 8, delivered a backdoor to thousands of systems that download…

Source BleepingComputer AI Summary Updated May 5, 2026

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Hackers trojanized installers for the DAEMON Tools software and since April 8, delivered a backdoor to thousands of systems that downloaded the product from the official website. [...]

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