CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads
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 welcome.
The issue hit tools like HWMonitor and CPU-Z, with users on Reddit and elsewhere starting to notice something wasn't right when installers tripped antivirus alerts or showed up under odd names. One example that did the rounds had the HWMonitor 1.63 update pointing to a file called "HWiNFO_Mon...
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