Hijacked Hotel Wi-Fi Pushes Fake Updates to Deliver Surveillance Malware
- ID
- 9903
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 01 Aug 2026, 2:29 PM
- Fetched
- 01 Aug 2026, 4:11 PM
- Provider
- The Hacker News
- Category
- security
- Original URL
- https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/hijacked-hotel-wi-fi-pushes-fake.html
- Source URL
- https://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHackersNews
Excerpt
A fake browser update served over hijacked hotel Wi-Fi has been used to deliver CornFlake, a remote access trojan (RAT) that can capture webcam images, microphone audio, and keystrokes, Microsoft said in its latest report. Researchers track the operation as CaptiveCrunch and attribute it to Storm-2945. It assesses Storm-2945 to be an operational sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, also known as
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