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Kaspersky: Strategic Hiring
Kaspersky discovered widespread Chinese hacker backdoor attack on Daemon Tools affecting thousands of users
Source: TechCrunch
- Who
- Kaspersky · Cybersecurity · EMEA (ex UK)
- What happened
- Kaspersky discovered widespread Chinese hacker backdoor attack on Daemon Tools affecting thousands of users
- When
- 2026-05-05
- Source
- TechCrunch
Market context: Backdrop: a 104.6 (Hot) Talent Market Index (up 3.6 on the month) with EMEA activity steady (+1.2pts).
Kaspersky: 0 signals in the last 90 days — below the Cybersecurity median of 1 across 22 tracked companies; 2 tracked across 77 days.
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