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CPUID hacked to deliver malware via CPU-Z, HWMonitor downloads

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 have millions of users who rely on them for tracking the physical health of internal computer hardware and for comprehensive specifications of a system. Users who downloaded either tool reported on Reddit recently that the official download portal points to the Cloudflare R2 storage service and fetches a trojanized version of HWiNFO, another diagnostic and monitoring tool from a different developer. The name of the malicious file is HWiNFO_Monitor_Setup, and running it launches a Russian installer with an Inno Setup wrapper, which is atypical and highly suspicious. Users reported that…

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Apr 10, 2026
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