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.

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

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

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

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

If you downloaded the free PC-monitoring tools CPU-Z or HWMonitor yesterday, you may have actually installed malware after a ...

In short, what look like normal download links for CPU-Z and HWMonitor, producing seemingly correct files, appear to result ...

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 ...

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.