Hawaii Cybersecurity Journal

"CPUID breach distributes STX RAT via trojanized CPU-Z HWMonitor downloads." Views expressed in this cybersecurity, cyber crime update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 12 April 2026, 1545 UTC. Content and Source:  "The Hacker News." https://thehackernews.com/ Please check URL or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (https://www.hawaiicybersecurityjournal.net). CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads  Apr 12, 2026 Malware / Threat Intelligence Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID ("cpuid[.]com"), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00 UTC, with the download URLs for CPU-Z and ...