diff --git a/monkey/common/utils/wmi_utils.py b/monkey/common/utils/wmi_utils.py
index 4df0e6886..22ccf112f 100644
--- a/monkey/common/utils/wmi_utils.py
+++ b/monkey/common/utils/wmi_utils.py
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-import wmi
+import sys
+
+if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
+    import wmi
 
 from .mongo_utils import MongoUtils
 
diff --git a/monkey/infection_monkey/requirements.txt b/monkey/infection_monkey/requirements.txt
index 374aef2fd..c9633b555 100644
--- a/monkey/infection_monkey/requirements.txt
+++ b/monkey/infection_monkey/requirements.txt
@@ -13,8 +13,4 @@ pyftpdlib==1.5.6
 pymssql<3.0
 pypykatz==0.3.12
 requests>=2.24
-# Locking WMI since version 1.5 introduced breaking change on Linux agent compilation.
-# See breaking change here: https://github.com/tjguk/wmi/commit/dcf8e3eca79bb8c0101ffb83e25c066b0ba9e16d
-# Causes pip to error with:
-# Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32 (from wmi->-r /src/infection_monkey/requirements.txt (line 12)) (from versions: none)
-wmi==1.4.9 ; sys_platform == 'win32'
+wmi==1.5.1 ; sys_platform == 'win32'