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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...

A server distributing a version of PC utility CCleaner infected with malware might have been compromised in early July, Avast revealed. read more

Millions of Users at Risk as Developer Piriform Issues Fixed UpdatesFor one month, the installer for a widely used, free Windows utility called CCleaner also installed a malicious payload that was...

Legitimately signed but backdoored versions of the popular CCleaner utility were available for download from the developer’s Web site and servers for nearly a month, Cisco Talos researchers have...

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...

Antivirus firm Avast announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Piriform, a London, UK-based company that develops the popular cleaning and optimization tool CCleaner. read more