CCLEANER BREACH SOFTWARE

CCLEANER BREACH SOFTWARE

The shutdown happened three days after Israeli security firm Morphisec alerted CCleaner owner Avast to the scandal. The hackers who broke into widely used computer utility software in August also tried to infect machines at Microsoft(MSFT.O), Intel(INTC.O) and other top technology companies, according to. The compromised CCleaner builds, such as v5.33, were distributed from August 2, and CCleaner Cloud from August 11, until August 25, and connected to a command-and-control server, used to orchestrate the malware, until September 15 when the box was taken down.

This was absolutely a highly targeted espionage caper, it appears. Nearly 2.3 million computers ended up installing the dodgy version of the tool, and 40 – within companies such as Intel, VMware, Samsung, NEC and Sony – were instructed to download malicious code to commandeer the boxes. law enforcement showed that the hackers had installed additional malicious software on a selected group of at least 20 machines. The widely used utility, which removes unwanted temporary files and registry keys on Windows machines, was backdoored with malicious code in August, as in, miscreants tampered with the software's downloads to introduce a means to remotely control PCs running the code. The researchers at Cisco, one of the companies that had warned Avast of the attack, said Wednesday that a control server seized by U.S. VB2017 Avast staffers spoke at the Virus Bulletin International Conference in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday to shed more light on their postmortem of the CCleaner fiasco – and urge developers to protect their software's toolchain and distribution systems from hackers.

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