Anyone who downloaded CPU-Z or HWMonitor from the official CPUID website in recent days may have received malware instead of ...
The CPUID website was compromised, leading to popular Windows utilities such as CPU-Z and HWMonitor delivering multi-stage, ...
Links to multiple CPUID tools hijacked and used to drop an infostealer.
CPUID breach served STX RAT via trojanized CPU-Z downloads on April 9–10, impacting 150+ victims and multiple industries.
Download links were replaced by a Russian-speaking threat actor to distribute a recently emerged malware named STX RAT.
Analysis shared by vx-underground says the malicious installer appears to have targeted 64-bit HWMonitor users and included a ...
Hackers gained access to an API for the CPUID project and changed the download links on the official website to serve ...
The devs were quick to remove the malware, as millions of users rely on these to track temperatures, voltages, fan speeds, ...
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 multiple reports claimed that official download links were serving malware rather ...
The CPU-Z And HWMonitor installers being compromised is notable because a user could do everything correctly and still get pwned.