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Your Copy Of Avast's 'PC Cleaner' CCleaner Could Be Full Of Malware, Update Now

  • 19th September 2017
According to its parent company Avast, more than 130 million people use the performance optimisation software CCleaner. And today all of those people need to be sure they have installed the latest update because some nasty malware has managed to make it into one of the builds. Piriform's CCleaner was purchased by the popular anti-virus developer ...
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Hackers hid malware in CCleaner software

  • 19th September 2017
Hackers have successfully breached CCleaner’s security to inject malware into the app and distribute it to millions of users. Security researchers at Cisco Talos discovered that download servers used by Avast (the company that owns CCleaner) were compromised to distribute malware inside CCleaner. “For a period of time, the legitimate signed ...
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