Hacker Hijacks Downloads for Popular PC-Monitoring Tools to Serve Malware

Those who tried to download CPU-Z and HWMonitor from CPUID.com on Thursday nigh…
Those who tried to download CPU-Z and HWMonitor from CPUID.com on Thursday night got a Trojan instead.

Those who tried to download CPU-Z and HWMonitor from CPUID.com on Thursday night got a Trojan instead.

Those who tried to download CPU-Z and HWMonitor from CPUID.com on Thursday night got a Trojan instead.

If you downloaded the free PC-monitoring tools CPU-Z or HWMonitor yesterday, you may have actually installed malware after a hacker briefly…

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Hacker Hijacks Downloads for Popular PC-Monitoring Tools to Serve Malware.

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Those who tried to download CPU-Z and HWMonitor from CPUID.com on Thursday night got a Trojan instead.

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