The CPUID website for system analysis tools CPU-Z and HWMonitor was manipulated by attackers. It distributed malware.

Anyone who downloaded CPU-Z or HWMonitor from the official CPUID website in recent days may have received malware instead of ...

Hackers gained access to an API for the CPUID project and changed the download links on the official website to serve ...

The CPUID website was compromised, leading to popular Windows utilities such as CPU-Z and HWMonitor delivering multi-stage, ...

With the links giving you a malware-infected file instead ...

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

CPUID breach served STX RAT via trojanized CPU-Z downloads on April 9–10, impacting 150+ victims and multiple industries.

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

Analysis shared by vx-underground says the malicious installer appears to have targeted 64-bit HWMonitor users and included a ...

If you've downloaded CPU-Z or HWMonitor recently, you might want to double check the files you've used, as they could be infected.

A potential software supply-chain incident is unfolding around CPUID, the developer behind CPU-Z and HWMonitor, after ...

The devs were quick to remove the malware, as millions of users rely on these to track temperatures, voltages, fan speeds, ...