I heard more from Disc-Soft, the maker of Daemon Tools, which was backdoored by suspected Chinese-language hackers and used to compromise thousands of users.
Disc-Soft tells me the backdoor was "limited to the free DAEMON Tools Lite" and v12.6 removes the backdoor; investigation ongoing.
My earlier story: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/kaspersky-suspects-chinese-hackers-planted-a-backdoor-into-daemon-tools-in-widespread-attack/
