Security News > 2018 > April > CCleaner Attack Timeline—Here's How Hackers Infected 2.3 Million PCs
2018-04-18 07:33
Last year, the popular system cleanup software CCleaner suffered a massive supply-chain malware attack of all times, wherein hackers compromised the company's servers for more than a month and replaced the original version of the software with the malicious one. The malware attack infected over 2.3 million users who downloaded or updated their CCleaner app between August and September last
News URL
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~3/82got22xrq8/ccleaner-malware-attack.html
Related news
- Lazarus Hackers Exploited Windows Kernel Flaw as Zero-Day in Recent Attacks (source)
- Hackers target FCC, crypto firms in advanced Okta phishing attacks (source)
- Hackers steal Windows NTLM authentication hashes in phishing attacks (source)
- Hackers impersonate U.S. government agencies in BEC attacks (source)
- Chinese State Hackers Target Tibetans with Supply Chain, Watering Hole Attacks (source)
- Hackers Exploiting Popular Document Publishing Sites for Phishing Attacks (source)
- Hackers Hijack GitHub Accounts in Supply Chain Attack Affecting Top-gg and Others (source)
- US sanctions APT31 hackers behind critical infrastructure attacks (source)
- Microsoft still unsure how hackers stole MSA key in 2023 Exchange attack (source)
- Hackers Deploy Python Backdoor in Palo Alto Zero-Day Attack (source)