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

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

Analysis shared by vx-underground says the malicious installer appears to have targeted 64-bit HWMonitor users and included a fake CRYPTBASE.dll designed to blend in with legitimate Windows components ...

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

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

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

TL;DR: CPU-Z v2.16 enhances hardware monitoring with support for AMD RDNA 4 GPUs like the Radeon RX 9060 XT, NVIDIA RTX 50 series GPUs including RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5050, and new AMD Ryzen CPUs such ...

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

CPU-Z is one of those little programs that has become a staple of the computer nerd world, never making waves, but showing up everywhere from the lowliest forum posts to the most in-depth review ...

The CPUID website for system analysis tools CPU-Z and HWMonitor was manipulated by attackers. It distributed malware.

Up until now, most talk has been of the Intel Arrow Lake processor launch being right at the tail end of 2024. However, popular CPU spec-listing app, CPU-Z, has just been updated with support listed ...

We haven't heard much pre-launch info about Intel's next-generation desktop platform, which is due later this year and is code-named Arrow Lake. So far, we know it won't offer Hyper-Threading, the ...