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 ...

"Censys finds 5,219 devices exposed to attacks by Iranian APTs, majority in the U.S." Views expressed in this cybersecurity, cyber crime update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 12 April 2026, 0327 UTC. Content and Source:  Email subscription provided by https://feedly.com. https://feedly.com/i/subscription/content/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsecurityaffairs.co%2Fwordpress%2Ffeed Please check subscription link or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (https://www.hawaiicybersecurityjournal.net). Security Affairs 79K followers 32 articles per week #security #tech 7 Today Censys finds 5,219 devices exposed to attacks by Iranian APTs, majority in U.S. Impact (Enterprise TA0040) • by Pierluigi Paganini  /  6h • Iranian APTs target exposed PLCs Censys researchers found 5,219 exposed Rockwell PLCs online, mostly in the U.S., urging defenders to secure or disconnect them. On April 7, 2026, U.S. agencies, ...