{
  "id": 3472340,
  "title": "Newly SLEEPWALKER Backdoor Waits for One Crafted Packet, Then Runs Its Own Bytecode",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/newly-sleepwalker-backdoor-waits-for-one-crafted-packet-then-runs-its",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-26T07:12:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/newly-sleepwalker-backdoor-waits-for.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An independent malware researcher has documented a previously unreported Windows backdoor, dubbed SLEEPWALKER, that stays inert in memory until a specifically crafted network packet reaches the machine and then runs commands written in a 23-instruction language of its own design. The sample is an unsigned 64-bit Windows dynamic-link library (DLL) of 59,904 bytes, built to be side-loaded into&",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}