Hackers hijack cPGuard autoupdate to deploy backdoor, steal data

By Bill Toulas · BleepingComputer · Tuesday, 3 November 2026 at 22:18 (4h ago) · Original article ↗

Attackers have compromised the update infrastructure for the cPGuard web security suite to distribute a backdoor and a data-stealing script. [...]

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