Download links were replaced by a Russian-speaking threat actor to distribute a recently emerged malware named STX RAT.

Hackers gained access to an API for the CPUID project and changed the download links on the official website to serve malicious executables for the popular CPU-Z and HWMonitor tools. The two utilities ...

A potential software supply-chain incident is unfolding around CPUID, the developer behind CPU-Z and HWMonitor, after multiple reports claimed that official download links were serving malware rather ...

If you downloaded the free PC-monitoring tools CPU-Z or HWMonitor yesterday, you may have actually installed malware after a hacker briefly hijacked the downloads to deliver a Trojan. On Thursday, ...

The CPU-Z And HWMonitor installers being compromised is notable because a user could do everything correctly and still get pwned.

The CPU-Z and HWMonitor download pages have recently been compromised, with download links replaced with ones pointing to files infected by malware. If you've recently downloaded either of these apps ...

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