Everyone treats trusted utilities like background noise until one turns into an access broker’s vending machine.
The CPU-Z story isn’t really about malware novelty. It’s about attackers getting pickier about which boring tools land closest to admin rights, saved creds, and the next buyer in the chain.
Read it here: https://blog.alphahunt.io/research-cpu-z-was-the-lure-the-real-story-is-who-buys-the-foothold
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(Nothing says modern intrusion economy like buying admin-adjacent footholds from the software flea market)