{"id":12048,"date":"2026-04-11T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/supply-chain-attack-at-cpuid-pushes-malware-with-cpu-z-hwmonitor\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:04:02","slug":"supply-chain-attack-at-cpuid-pushes-malware-with-cpu-z-hwmonitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/supply-chain-attack-at-cpuid-pushes-malware-with-cpu-z-hwmonitor\/","title":{"rendered":"CPUID hacked to deliver malware via CPU-Z, HWMonitor downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    CPUID hacked to deliver malware via CPU-Z, HWMonitor downloads<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Hackers gained access to an API for the CPUID project and\u00a0changed the download links on the official website to serve malicious executables for the popular CPU-Z and HWMonitor tools. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/supply-chain-attack-at-cpuid-pushes-malware-with-cpu-z-hwmonitor\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPUID hacked to deliver malware via CPU-Z, HWMonitor downloads Hackers gained access to an API for the CPUID project and\u00a0changed the download links on the official website to serve malicious executables for the popular CPU-Z and HWMonitor tools. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-12048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}