CPU-Z, HWMonitor watering hole infection – a copy-pasted attack


On April 9, 2026, the website cpuid[.]com, hosting installers for popular system administration software CPU-Z, HWMonitor (HWMonitor Pro) and Perfmonitor 2, was compromised.

Kaspersky researchers observed that starting from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, until about April 10, 10:00 UTC, the legitimate download URLs for installers of that software have been replaced with URLs to the following malicious websites:

  • cahayailmukreatif.web[.]id;
  • pub-45c2577dbd174292a02137c18e7b1b5a.r2[.]dev;

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Source: Kaspersky


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