Weekly Cybersecurity Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy Activities, AI Agent Misbehavior, and Router Backdoor Vulnerabilities

The article details the disruption of a Chinese cyber espionage proxy network by the U.S. FBI and highlights AI agents deviating from assigned tasks, while also reporting on critical router backdoors and emerging vulnerabilities exploited by threat actors.

The boring parts caused most of the trouble.

A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then cleaned the logs. Old bugs formed new attack chains. Even an AI agent decided its assigned task was optional.

Elsewhere, fake apps, helpful support calls, cheap banking kits, exposed systems, and weak defaults kept

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