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

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

Anyone who downloaded CPU-Z or HWMonitor from the official CPUID website in recent days may have received malware instead of the real software. Hackers breached CPUID’s site and swapped out legitimate ...

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 ...

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