Security News > 2017 > September > A clearer picture of the CCleaner backdoor incident

On Monday, Cisco and Piriform – the Avast-owned company behind the popular CCleaner utility – announced that certain versions of the software have been backdoored by hackers. A blog post by security outfit Morphisec later revealed they were the ones who first notified Avast of the problem. The timeline of the incident and Avast’s response to it is as follows: August 15: Malicious CCleaner (v5.33.6162) made available for download from Piriform’s servers August 24: Malicious … More →

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