Items tagged with piriform
Users of the popular CCleaner program by Piriform are being advised to update the application after researchers at Cisco's Talos division discovered hackers had hidden malware inside. The contaminated utility served as a beacon call for additional forms of malware—using a backdoor, an attacker could run code from a remote IP address. The threat was discovered in CCleaner 5.33 released on August 15, and CCleaner Cloud 1.07 released on August 24. According to Piriform, which is owned by security outfit Avast, the affected version of CCleaner may have been used by up to 3 percent of its userbase. That works out to around 2.27 million people, by the company's own accounting. "The compromise could...
Read more...
