Hackers hijacked CPUID downloads, served STX RAT to victims
2026-04-13T14:51:52Z•4bf59425c3eb4d9014d4d2b6e0084b035dc665ac6fa9ff01745ebc4df271a8e8
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What happened
Multiple security incidents and notable industry developments: CPUID’s website was briefly hijacked (Apr 9–10) and malicious download links served STX RAT to some users; Rockstar Games suffered a breach via a compromised Anodot tenant that exposed auth tokens and Snowflake data leading to an extortion demand; Adobe issued an emergency patch for a prototype-pollution zero-day (CVE-2026-34621) exploited in the wild; law enforcement froze ~$12M and identified 20,000+ victims in an international crypto scam operation; Dutch police seized VerifTools infrastructure exposing ~915,655 fake IDs and 8 %
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- helpnetsecurity
- Record identifier
- 4bf59425c3eb4d9014d4d2b6e0084b035dc665ac6fa9ff01745ebc4df271a8e8
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-13T14:51:52Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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