You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine
2026-08-25T07:23:51Z•f3e9104e61a1251d0976fc20e18774219d26c91a64282ff075066b467391750e
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What happened
Security news feed covering malware campaigns, exploited vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply-chain compromises, data breaches, phishing and OAuth abuse, critical-infrastructure attacks, privacy tracking techniques, and emerging AI security risks. Notable items include the Sleepwalker Windows backdoor, poisoned Rust and npm packages, actively exploited Ray RCE, Cisco Secure Workload flaws, Iranian-linked disruption of a UK power plant, and large-scale exposure of government, hotel, communications, and cloud-tenant data.
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- theregister_security
- Record identifier
- f3e9104e61a1251d0976fc20e18774219d26c91a64282ff075066b467391750e
- Enrichment time
- 2026-08-25T07:23:51Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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