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CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads

CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads 2026-04-12 at 10:57 By Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. […]

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Crypto crashed six months ago: Have markets improved, or are bears still in charge?

Crypto crashed six months ago: Have markets improved, or are bears still in charge? 2026-04-11 at 23:52 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman The October 2025 Bitcoin and altcoin crash may have ended the bull market, but its long-term impact on market health may have been overstated. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

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Messaging push notifications are a privacy attack surface, says Durov

Messaging push notifications are a privacy attack surface, says Durov 2026-04-11 at 22:35 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The comments followed recent reports that law enforcement officials retrieved deleted Signal messages through device push notification logs. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Bitcoin price analysis sees new short squeeze as open interest nears $25B

Bitcoin price analysis sees new short squeeze as open interest nears $25B 2026-04-11 at 22:35 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin open interest hit five-week highs while funding rates mimicked the BTC price collapse below $60,000, leading analysis to predict a new short squeeze. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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How Salesforce and ServiceNow are squaring off in the battle for the helpdesk

How Salesforce and ServiceNow are squaring off in the battle for the helpdesk 2026-04-11 at 19:35 By O’Ryan Johnson Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agents FEATURE  Salesforce CEO and chief “SaaSquatch” Mark Benioff boasted about the wins his company’s ITSM product had last quarter in the terms a proud

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Reality of AI’s impact on employment clashes with C-suite optimism

Reality of AI’s impact on employment clashes with C-suite optimism 2026-04-11 at 17:06 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood While some proponents believe AI will bring about an employment boom, so far its effect has been to dampen entry-level hiring while delivering mixed results on productivity. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

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Paying Iran in crypto could put shippers at sanctions risk: Chainalysis

Paying Iran in crypto could put shippers at sanctions risk: Chainalysis 2026-04-11 at 16:34 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Crypto’s transparent ledger makes sanctions evasion easier to trace, allowing authorities to track and potentially freeze illicit flows. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools – and showed us the future of supply chain compromise

Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools – and showed us the future of supply chain compromise 2026-04-11 at 15:02 By Jessica Lyons Time to start dropping SBOMs FEATURE  Two supply chain attacks in March infected open source tools with malware and used this access to steal secrets from tens of thousands – if

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Bitwise edges closer to Hyperliquid ETF launch with second amended filing

Bitwise edges closer to Hyperliquid ETF launch with second amended filing 2026-04-11 at 12:42 By Cointelegraph by Brian Quarmby Bitwise added the ticker $BHYP and a 0.67% management fee in its latest filing, signaling a potential launch soon, according to Bloomberg’s senior ETF analyst. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Federal court blocks Arizona crackdown on Kalshi’s event contracts

Federal court blocks Arizona crackdown on Kalshi’s event contracts 2026-04-11 at 12:42 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas A federal judge in Arizona has temporarily barred state officials from enforcing gambling laws against Kalshi, siding with the CFTC. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data

Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data 2026-04-11 at 12:42 By Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company

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Trump-linked WLFI hits new low as token-backed loan triggers concern

Trump-linked WLFI hits new low as token-backed loan triggers concern 2026-04-11 at 12:30 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas WLFI fell to a record low after it was revealed that the project used billions of its own tokens as collateral to borrow $75 million in stablecoins. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

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Hungarian government creds left in the safe hands of ‘FrankLampard’

Hungarian government creds left in the safe hands of ‘FrankLampard’ 2026-04-11 at 11:30 By Carly Page Nearly 800 state logins surfaced in breach data, including defense and NATO-linked accounts Hungary’s government has discovered the hard way that the biggest threat to national security might just be its own password choices.… This article is an excerpt

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CFTC unveils innovation task force members in crypto clarity push

CFTC unveils innovation task force members in crypto clarity push 2026-04-11 at 07:11 By Cointelegraph by Brian Quarmby The CFTC’s task force includes five members with legal and crypto backgrounds to help “clear rules of the road for American innovators.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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California bill aims to put more human operators on robotaxis like Waymo’s; company says proposal would be crippling

California bill aims to put more human operators on robotaxis like Waymo’s; company says proposal would be crippling 2026-04-11 at 02:21 By Marc Vartabedian A Silicon Valley lawmaker wants to require robotaxis like Google’s Waymo to hire local human operators to be on standby in case the system goes haywire, like it did when a

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Microsoft’s Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla

Microsoft’s Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla 2026-04-11 at 02:20 By Brandon Vigliarolo Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choice Firefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback

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The Exploit Window Collapse: Claude Mythos and the Future of Incident Response

The Exploit Window Collapse: Claude Mythos and the Future of Incident Response 2026-04-11 at 02:20 By Devon Ackerman Every so often, something comes along that forces you to recalibrate how you think about cyber risk. Not incrementally, but fundamentally. Claude Mythos feels like one of those moments. This article is an excerpt from LevelBlue Blog

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Trojanized CPUID HWMonitor Installer Delivers Fileless .NET Payload via Obfuscated IPv6 Scriptlet

Trojanized CPUID HWMonitor Installer Delivers Fileless .NET Payload via Obfuscated IPv6 Scriptlet 2026-04-11 at 02:20 By Sean Shirley Overview Recent reporting has identified a trojanized version of the CPUID HWMonitor installer being used to deliver a multi-stage, fileless malware chain leveraging trusted Windows binaries. Upon execution, the installer initiates a sequence involving PowerShell, MSBuild, and

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