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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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In order to explore real-time power consumption with Skylake, we turned to CPUID's HWMonitor tool. HWMonitor actually records a number of useful parameters, but for our purposes we will focus on total ...