{
  "id": 4650304,
  "title": "ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/valleyrat-backdoor-hides-in-signed-adware-that-users-add-to-antivirus",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-31T12:14:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/valleyrat-backdoor-hides-in-signed.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine Chinese desktop-wallpaper tool",
  "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."
}