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Download links were replaced by a Russian-speaking threat actor to distribute a recently emerged malware named STX RAT.

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

Anyone who downloaded CPU-Z or HWMonitor from the official CPUID website in recent days may have received malware instead of ...

If you downloaded common system tools CPU-Z or HWMonitor in the last 24 hours, stop reading this and go deal with that system first, because there's a real chance it was compromised. A breach of the ...

Unknown attackers compromised the CPUID website, redirecting users to malware laden versions of popular tools.

Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less ...

Hackers gained access to an API for the CPUID project and changed the download links on the official website to serve malicious executables for the popular CPU-Z and HWMonitor tools. The two utilities ...

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