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“A suspicious activity was identified on September 12th, 2017, where we saw an unknown IP address receiving data from software found in version of CCleaner, and CCleaner Cloud version, on 32-bit Windows systems,” Paul Yung, vice president of products at Piriform, wrote in a statement.

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Piriform has contacted law enforcement, shut down the impacted download server and updated CCleaner to version 5.34. “We believe that these users are safe now as our investigation indicates we were able to disarm the threat before it was able to do any harm.”Īvast acquired Piriform in July, and in a statement Piriform thanked Avast Threat Labs for analyzing the attack. “We estimate that 2.27 million users had the affected software installed on 32-bit Windows machines,” a spokesperson for software security vendor Avast told eWEEK. 18, Piriform publicly revealed that its servers had been hacked, with attackers modifying CCleaner with a backdoor that possibly infected millions of users. You can contact us today to find out more about our maintenance and security services to ensure your business stays safe.More than 2 billion users around the world have downloaded the Piriform CCleaner tool to help remove unwanted files and keep their systems secure. We will be deploying advanced scanning methods this week to ensure our clients stay safe. We have already scanned all of our clients machines and have removed CCleaner where an infected copy has been found. At this time, we recommend uninstalling CCleaner and using virus scanning software to detect and remove any infected files.Īdvanced users may find out if they are currently infected by seeing it the following registry key exists We are currently investigating these claims. Advice from Talos Intelligence suggests the only way to be safe is to revert to a previous back or reinstall your computer. Upgrading CCleaner will only replace the infected executable with a non-infected version, as reported by Bleeping Computer. Uninstalling CCleaner will remove the registry keys and the infected executable.

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Security company Avast acquired Pirform in July and spokesperson from Avast has told TechCrunch “We believe that these users are safe now as our investigation indicates we were able to disarm the threat before it was able to do any harm.” Removing the Infection: So far, there has been no statement as to how the infection got there, but Pirform has stated they are working with US law enforcement and there is no evidence that the control servers (which has now been shut down) had done any harm. Ultimately, it appears that the infection was intended to be a Command & Control style infection, allowing a remote controller to issue commands to infected machines, commonly used to launch attacks against other systems. Users who had installed either of these versions, estimated to be 2.27 million people, may have had non-personally identifiable information stolen, such as what software is installed, what programs you were running and more.

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Pirform released an announcement yesterday (18th September, 2017) informing their users that CCleaner v and CCleaner Cloud v had been compromised, as an attacker managed to place malicious code inside the official CCleaner releases.














Ccleaner cloud malware