Monday, September 18, 2017

CCleaner and bestill by beating heart.

I was working on NewsBites upcoming story:

CCleaner Utility Was Infected with Malware (September 18, 2017)

Researchers at Cisco’s Talos have found that download servers used to distribute the CCleaner utility were also surreptitiously delivering malware along with the software. The legitimate, signed version of CCleaner, 5.53, included malware that gathered user information and sent it to a third party. Avast, which distributed CCleaner, estimated that the infected version of the utility had been downloaded by 2.27 million users. The infected version of CCleaner is no longer available for download.

Read more in:
Cisco Talos: CCleanup: A Vast Number of Machines at Risk
http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html

So I clicked on the link and:













Now you know and I know it had to be coincidence, but I run CCleaner so this one took a few deep breaths.

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