{"id":10723,"date":"2026-11-04T13:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/china-aligned-hackers-hijack-sogou-input-method-dns-requests-to-deploy-darkvigil-backdoor\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T13:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:11:36","slug":"china-aligned-hackers-hijack-sogou-input-method-dns-requests-to-deploy-darkvigil-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/china-aligned-hackers-hijack-sogou-input-method-dns-requests-to-deploy-darkvigil-backdoor\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Aligned Hackers Hijack Sogou Input Method DNS Requests to Deploy DarkVigil Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA China-aligned threat actor known as SlippyNunchucks has been attributed to a Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking operation abusing insecure HTTP communications in Windows versions of Sogou Input Method as part of a surveillance campaign designed to deploy an implant called DarkVigil (aka FDMTP).<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, observed starting July 1, 2026, is assessed to have targeted organizations and\u00a0A China-aligned threat actor known as SlippyNunchucks has been attributed to a Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking operation abusing insecure HTTP communications in Windows versions of Sogou Input Method as part of a surveillance campaign designed to deploy an implant called DarkVigil (aka FDMTP).<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, observed starting July 1, 2026, is assessed to have targeted organizations and\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA China-aligned threat actor known as SlippyNunchucks has been attributed to a Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking operation abusing insecure HTTP communications in Windows versions of Sogou Input Method as part of a surveillance campaign designed to deploy an implant called DarkVigil (aka FDMTP). The campaign, observed starting July 1, 2026, is assessed to have&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/china-aligned-hackers-hijack-sogou-input-method-dns-requests-to-deploy-darkvigil-backdoor\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China-Aligned Hackers Hijack Sogou Input Method DNS Requests to Deploy DarkVigil Backdoor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}