Hackers Abuse Legitimate HWMonitor Binary to Load Malicious DLL Payload
Hackers are once again turning familiar tools against the very users who trust them. A new attack campaign has been discovered in which threat actors weaponized HWMonitor, a widely used hardware monitoring utility developed by CPUID, to silently deliver a remote access trojan known as STX RAT. By disguising malware inside what looks like a […] The post Hackers Abuse Legitimate HWMonitor Binary to Load Malicious DLL Payload appeared first on Cyber Security News.
Hackers exploited the HWMonitor utility, a legitimate tool for monitoring system hardware, to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) payload disguised as a DLL file. This attack campaign targets users who trust and rely on the HWMonitor software.
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