The website of CPUID, the maker of popular hardware monitoring tool HWMonitor and system information tool CPU-Z, has been breached by unknown attackers, and those who downloaded these tools were ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few days ago, CPUID rolled out a new version of HWMonitor that added hostpots for the NVIDIA RTX 50 series GeForce cards, which were absent in previous versions. Some people found workarounds ...

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 ...

A potential software supply-chain incident is unfolding around CPUID, the developer behind CPU-Z and HWMonitor, after multiple reports claimed that official download links were serving malware rather ...

Several newly released and upcoming hardware are now added to the CPU-Z database, allowing better reporting in the software. CPUID Brings AMD Gorgon Halo, Ryzen PRO 9000 Series, Gorgon Point 2/3, ...

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The CPU-Z and HWMonitor download pages have recently been compromised, with download links replaced with ones pointing to files infected by malware. If you've recently downloaded either of these apps ...

NVIDIA RTX Spark support has arrived in CPU-Z and HWMonitor ARM64. Author Franck Delattre says remote access to an ASUS P16 helped with development.