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

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...