{"id":236665,"date":"2026-05-06T22:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/daemon-tools-devs-confirm-breach-release-malware-free-version"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:19:39","slug":"daemon-tools-devs-confirm-breach-release-malware-free-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/daemon-tools-devs-confirm-breach-release-malware-free-version","title":{"rendered":"DAEMON Tools devs confirm breach, release malware-free version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/daemon-tools-devs-confirm-breach-release-malware-free-version.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disc Soft Limited, the maker of DAEMON Tools Lite, confirmed that the software had been trojanized in a supply chain attack and released a new, malware-free version.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin less than 12 hours of identifying the issue, we were able to implement a solution. Based on our current findings, the issue was limited to the free DAEMON Tools Lite version and did not affect any of our other products,\u201d Disc Soft told BleepingComputer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not identified evidence supporting claims that all DAEMON Tools users were impacted, and at this stage, we are not in a position to confirm any impact on paid versions customers. Our current analysis indicates that DAEMON Tools Pro and DAEMON Tools Ultra were not affected and absolutely safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disc Soft Limited, the maker of DAEMON Tools Lite, confirmed that the software had been trojanized in a supply chain attack and released a new, malware-free version. \u201cWithin less than 12 hours of identifying the issue, we were able to implement a solution. Based on our current findings, the issue was limited to the free [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}