{"id":40065,"date":"2026-04-10T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=40065"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:51:16","slug":"alware-website-hosting-cpuid-hwmonitor-cpu-z-etc-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/04\/10\/alware-website-hosting-cpuid-hwmonitor-cpu-z-etc-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware: Website hosting CPUID, HWMonitor, CPU-Z, etc., hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" title=\"Stop - Pixabay\" src=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stop01.jpg\" alt=\"Stop - Pixabay\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/malware-website-die-cpuid-hwmonitor-cpu-z-etc-hostet-gehackt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]Warning to users who use tools such as CPUID, HWMonitor, CPU-Z, etc. and updated it recently (between April 9, and April 10, 2026. The website where these tools were hosted and offered for download has fallen victim to a supply chain attack. As a result, malware was\/is being distributed via downloads from the web server. Therefore, anyone who has recently downloaded tools such as CPUID, HWMonitor, CPU-Z, etc., from this website may have malware on their Windows system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is now a statement from the developer, cited from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/supply-chain-attack-at-cpuid-pushes-malware-with-cpu-z-hwmonitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bleeping Computer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Investigations are still ongoing, but it appears that a secondary feature (basically a side API) was compromised for approximately six hours between April 9 and April 10, causing the main website to randomly display malicious links (our signed original files were not compromised). The breach was found and has since been fixed.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the details in the German <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/malware-website-die-cpuid-hwmonitor-cpu-z-etc-hostet-gehackt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> [use site`s build-in translation to show it in English etc.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Warning to users who use tools such as CPUID, HWMonitor, CPU-Z, etc. and updated it recently (between April 9, and April 10, 2026. The website where these tools were hosted and offered for download has fallen victim to a supply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/04\/10\/alware-website-hosting-cpuid-hwmonitor-cpu-z-etc-hacked\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,1547,2],"tags":[244,69,1544],"class_list":["post-40065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-software","category-windows","tag-malware","tag-security","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40073,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065\/revisions\/40073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}