{"id":234979,"date":"2026-04-11T02:14:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/cpuid-hacked-to-deliver-malware-via-cpu-z-hwmonitor-downloads"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:14:03","slug":"cpuid-hacked-to-deliver-malware-via-cpu-z-hwmonitor-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/cpuid-hacked-to-deliver-malware-via-cpu-z-hwmonitor-downloads","title":{"rendered":"CPUID hacked to deliver malware via CPU-Z, HWMonitor downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cpuid-hacked-to-deliver-malware-via-cpu-z-hwmonitor-downloads.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Users who downloaded either tool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pcmasterrace\/comments\/1sh4e5l\/warning_hwmonitor_163_download_on_the_official\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported on Reddit<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}