Hackers hijacked CPUID downloads, served STX RAT to victims If you tried to download software from CPUID’s website late last week, you might have downloaded malware instead. “Investigations are still ongoing, but it appears that a secondary feature (basically a side API) was compromised for approximately six hours between April 9 and April 10, causing the main website to randomly display malicious links (our signed original files were not compromised),” Samuel Demeulemeester, a contributor to CPUID, stated on Friday, and apologized to affected users. “The breach was found and has since been fixed,” he added. A poisoned “watering hole” CPUID (at cpuid[.]com) is a website that hosts free software utilities, primarily for Windows and Android. Among its most popular utilities are HWMonitor, a…