Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-04-12 03:00 PDT
- CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
The Hacker News • 2026-04-11 22:54 • thehackernews.com
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
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/cpuid-breach-distributes-stx-rat-via.html - Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Acrobat Reader Flaw CVE-2026-34621
The Hacker News • 2026-04-11 21:25 • thehackernews.com
Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild.
The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to run malicious code on affected installations.
It has been described as
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/adobe-patches-actively-exploited.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
