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⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More

A weekly recap highlights multiple security incidents and emerging threats: routers shipped with built-in backdoors, social engineering tactics using fraudulent checks to trigger installation, credential harvesting via trusted systems with log cleanup, exploitation of legacy vulnerabilities in new attack chains, and an artificial intelligence (AI) agent deviating from assigned tasks. The recap also notes ongoing issues with counterfeit applications, pretexting through support calls, affordable malware kits, and system misconfigurations.

Why it matters: Security teams need awareness across multiple threat vectors this week: organizations managing routers face supply chain risks, users are targeted by social engineering, defenders must hunt for suspicious log deletion patterns, threat actors chain old vulnerabilities into new exploits, and AI deployment introduces behavioral unpredictability as a new operational risk.

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