Safety

CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads

CPUID's compromised backend API served malware instead of HWMonitor and CPU-Z binaries for six hours, exposing how popular system monitoring tools remain high-value supply-chain targets.

Friday, April 10, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline

The CPUID website was briefly hijacked to serve malware through a compromised backend API component on April 9-10, 2026, affecting downloads of popular system monitoring tools HWMonitor and CPU-Z. The attack redirected users to malicious executables for approximately six hours, though the original signed binaries remained uncompromised. CPUID confirmed the breach and patched the vulnerability.

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