{"id":19888,"date":"2026-04-12T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/cpuid-breach-distributes-stx-rat-via-trojanized-cpu-z-and-hwmonitor-downloads-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T05:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:54:00","slug":"cpuid-breach-distributes-stx-rat-via-trojanized-cpu-z-and-hwmonitor-downloads-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/cpuid-breach-distributes-stx-rat-via-trojanized-cpu-z-and-hwmonitor-downloads-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (&#8220;cpuid[.]com&#8221;), a website\u00a0that 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\u00a0RAT.<br \/>\nThe incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00\u00a0UTC, with<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/cpuid-breach-distributes-stx-rat-via.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (&#8220;cpuid[.]com&#8221;), a website\u00a0that 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\u00a0RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00\u00a0UTC, withRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}