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OTX Threat: Daxin Returns: Stealthy Malware Resurfaces in Taiwan Alongside a New Backdoor

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Backdoor.Daxin, a sophisticated China-linked kernel-mode rootkit first exposed in 2022, was discovered operating on a Taiwan manufacturing firm's network in 2026. The malware was found alongside Backdoor.Stupig, a previously unknown backdoor that uses a novel technique involving a Trojanized keyboard-layout DLL loaded by winlogon.exe, enabling command execution as System from the Windows logon scr Sectors: Manufacturing, Technology

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