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"textContent": "Anyone who downloaded CPU-Z or HWMonitor from CPUID around April 9 to April 10, 2026 should treat that installer as suspicious. CPUID now says attackers compromised a secondary API for about six hours and used it to show malicious download links, while the company’s original signed files remained untouched. The incident matters because CPU-Z and […]\n\nThe post CPUID hack turns CPU-Z and HWMonitor downloads into a malware risk appeared first on VPN Central.",
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