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 ...

Download links were replaced by a Russian-speaking threat actor to distribute a recently emerged malware named STX RAT. The CPUID website, popular in the PC hardware community, was recently hacked and ...

Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID ("cpuid[.]com"), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve ...

Add Techlomedia as a preferred source on Google. A major security incident has hit users of popular PC tools after hackers briefly compromised the official website of CPUID. The attackers replaced ...

If you downloaded CPU-Z, HWMonitor, or any other utility from CPUID in the past few days, stop what you’re doing and read this. On April 9–10, 2026, the official CPUID website (cpuid.com) was breached ...

Two of the most popular hardware monitoring utilities, HWMonitor 1.63 and CPU-Z, were recently found to be infected with malware. The official websites were hacked, and users trying to download the ...

If you downloaded common system tools CPU-Z or HWMonitor in the last 24 hours, stop reading this and go deal with that system first, because there's a real chance it was compromised. A breach of the ...

Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less ...

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 ...