Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong

Yoshiii
Wed, 06 May 2026 03:56:14 +0000

“Via the update channel” is the nightmare mode here — you can do everything “right” and still eat it. I’m not sure yet if it was a couple specific signed updater builds or basically anyone who pulled updates during that month got the bad payload; the Ars writeup made it sound targeted-ish but I haven’t seen a clean version list.