Hijacked Hotel Wi-Fi Pushes Fake Updates to Deliver Surveillance Malware

The Hacker News 1 August 2026, 09:29 EEST Security

A fake browser update served over hijacked hotel Wi-Fi has been used to deliver CornFlake, a remote access trojan (RAT) that can capture webcam images, microphone audio, and keystrokes, Microsoft said in its latest report. Researchers track the operation as CaptiveCrunch and attribute it to Storm-2945. It assesses Storm-2945 to be an operational sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, also known as…

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