CPUID Supply Chain Attack Poisons CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads

Hackers compromised an API for CPUID, the developer behind CPU-Z and HWMonitor, and modified official download links to serve malicious executables in place of the legitimate tools. The attack targeted users downloading from the official CPUID website during the compromise window. CPU-Z and HWMonitor are among the most widely used Windows hardware diagnostics utilities, making the potential exposure broad. Any executable downloaded from the official site during the affected period should be treated as suspect. Users should re-download from a verified clean source and check hashes against any known-good values published by CPUID post-remediation.