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 ...

"$285 million Drift Hack traced to six-month DPRK social engineering operation." Views expressed in this cybersecurity, cyber crime update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 05 April 2026, 2310 UTC. Content and Source:  "The Hacker News." URL-- https://thehackernews.com/ Please check URL or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (https://www.hawaiicybersecurityjournal.net). $285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation  Apr 05, 2026 Cryptocurrency / Threat Intelligence Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based decentralized exchange described it as "an attack six months in the making," attrib...