{
  "id": 4657746,
  "title": "⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/weekly-recap-chinese-spy-proxy-ai-agents-go-off-task-router-backdoors",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-31T13:50:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/weekly-recap-chinese-spy-proxy-ai.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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",
  "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."
}