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 ...

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 ...

If you downloaded the free PC-monitoring tools CPU-Z or HWMonitor yesterday, you may have actually installed malware after a hacker briefly hijacked the downloads to deliver a Trojan. On Thursday, ...

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 ...