CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads
2026-04-10T19:24:01Z•9c10dcfdac288fe21dcf5fc5d66fbd52bcafb7801e98e62ada148472775ed894
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What happened
A batch of active, high-impact security incidents and trends: CPUID was briefly hijacked to serve malware in place of HWMonitor downloads; Fortinet patched a critical FortiClient EMS vulnerability confirmed exploited in the wild and added to CISA KEV; hackers have been abusing an apparent Adobe Acrobat Reader zero-day to profile victims via malicious PDFs; AI tools are both finding and generating zero-day-class bugs (Anthropic/Mythos and AI agents finding CUPS RCEs); and large-scale phishing/aid‑automation campaigns (Microsoft device‑code phishing, helpdesk social‑engineering, and new extorsio
Why it matters
A reviewed impact interpretation has not been published for this record.
Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- theregister_security
- Record identifier
- 9c10dcfdac288fe21dcf5fc5d66fbd52bcafb7801e98e62ada148472775ed894
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-10T19:24:01Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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