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Warning: CCleaner Hacked to Distribute Malware; Over 2.3 Million Users Infected
2017-09-18 06:26

Security researchers from Cisco Talos discovered that the download servers used by Avast to let users download the application were compromised by some unknown hackers, who replaced the original version of the software with the malicious one and distributed it to millions of users for around a month. This incident is yet another example of supply chain attack. Earlier this year, update


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