Links to multiple CPUID tools hijacked and used to drop an infostealer.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CPUID has released a warning for users of its CPU-Z tool that benchmark results from the latest 1.79 release should not be compared to any results from previous versions, while also detailing changes ...

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Anyone who downloaded the system analysis tools from the CPUID website, such as CPU-Z or HWMonitor, on Thursday or Friday of the past week, i.e., April 9th or 10th, 2026, should scan their computer ...