Kaspersky
DAEMON Tools Supply Chain Compromise: Signed Installers Backdoored Since April 8, Chinese Actor Suspected
Trojanized DAEMON Tools Lite installers signed with the legitimate vendor certificate distributed a multi-protocol backdoor for nearly a month. Kaspersky telemetry shows infection attempts in 100+ countries, with a second-stage implant on government and scientific targets in Russia, Belarus, and Thailand.
PhantomRPC: Five Endpoint-Spoofing Paths to SYSTEM on Every Windows Build, No Patch Coming
Kaspersky disclosed PhantomRPC at Black Hat Asia 2026 — an architectural flaw in rpcrt4.dll that lets a low-priv process register a rogue RPC endpoint and hijack SYSTEM-level callers. Microsoft declined to patch.