CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads

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• m33@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Notepad++ have been there too

  Then you realize very popular software and their official website actually are a one man show. Nobody is perfect and those things tend to work for years without security in mind. At the time it were built, supply chain attack was not invented yet.

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• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Linux package repositories win again. Downloading random .exe files from sketchy websites will always be stupid

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tell me you didn’t read the article without saying you didn’t read the article.

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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh sweet summer child…

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    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah. Nothing is perfect of course, but normalizing exrcuting software sourced from random, untrustworthy websites will always be objectively worse than curated repos.

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• BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Deja Vu

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• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m glad I keep an archive of everything I download.

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