{"id":12060,"date":"2026-04-12T07:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/cpuid-breach-distributes-stx-rat-via-html\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:04:07","slug":"cpuid-breach-distributes-stx-rat-via-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/cpuid-breach-distributes-stx-rat-via-html\/","title":{"rendered":"CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>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<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/cpuid-breach-distributes-stx-rat-via.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-12060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}