CPUID watering hole attack spreads STX RAT malware
Threat actors compromised the CPUID website and spread STX RAT through fake CPU-Z and HWMonitor downloads. Attackers breached the website CPUID and replaced download links for CPU-Z and HWMonitor with malicious files for several hours. Users who downloaded them got infected with the STX RAT, giving attackers remote access to their systems. The short attack […]
Attackers breached the website CPUID and replaced download links for CPU-Z and HWMonitor with malicious files for several hours. Users who downloaded them got infected with the STX RAT, giving attackers remote access to their systems. The short attack window still exposed many users to compromise.
Investigations show attackers compromised a secondary API for about six hours, causing the site to display malicious links. The maintainers of the website confirmed that the original signed files remain safe, and the issue has been fixed.
Source: https://securityaffairs.com/190702/malware/cpuid-watering-hole-attack-spreads-stx-rat-malware.html
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