CPUID breach served STX RAT via trojanized CPU-Z downloads on April 9–10, impacting 150+ victims and multiple industries.

Although executed by different attackers – Axios by North Korean-linked goons, and Trivy et al. by a loosely knit band of ...

The devs were quick to remove the malware, as millions of users rely on these to track temperatures, voltages, fan speeds, ...

The CPU-Z And HWMonitor installers being compromised is notable because a user could do everything correctly and still get pwned.

Those who tried to download CPU-Z and HWMonitor from CPUID.com on Thursday night got a Trojan instead.

Hackers gained access to an API for the CPUID project and changed the download links on the official website to serve ...

With the links giving you a malware-infected file instead ...

If you've downloaded CPU-Z or HWMonitor recently, you might want to double check the files you've used, as they could be infected.

What makes the threat notable is the way it narrows the gap between a traditional RAT and an infostealer. Analysts found that STX RAT can give operators covert control of a victim machine through a ...

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