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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 ...

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 ...

Two of the most popular hardware monitoring utilities, HWMonitor 1.63 and CPU-Z, were recently found to be infected with malware. The official websites were hacked, and users trying to download the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The SPEC CPU 2026 features more tests and an emphasis on portability, running on everything from fleets of servers down to a ...

A German hardware enthusiast and streamer managed to get his mitts on an Intel Bartlett Lake-S Core 9 273PQE processor and put it through its paces in some informal gaming tests. The results? A modest ...

Geekbench 6.7 has introduced a policy and detection change aimed squarely at Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool, or BOT. With the new release, any benchmark submission made while BOT is enabled will be ...

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