**Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor into Daemon Tools in ‘widespread’ attack** The cybersecurity company says it's seen thousands of infection attempts, and at least a dozen successful hacks after users installed malicious versions of the popular Windows software. Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/kaspersky-suspects-chinese-hackers-planted-a-backdoor-into-daemon-tools-in-widespread-attack/