CCleaner found to have backdoor trojan

[MudRock]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...ner-cybersecurity-app-infected-with-backdoor/


Wow... Avast downplays it. They claim a hacker did it... But won't reveal details of the invasion. Very fishy.

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[tucsonpc]

This is hardly how I expected them to screw up CCleaner. This is not the bloatware I imagined XD

 

[G8racingfool]

So... a 'hacker' did it? How does that work? It's a closed source program with what I would assume would be some sort of versioning control internally so how does someone hack in and make these modifications without it having been noted? I'd be leaning more towards a rouge employee.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

So... a 'hacker' did it? How does that work? It's a closed source program with what I would assume would be some sort of versioning control internally so how does someone hack in and make these modifications without it having been noted? I'd be leaning more towards a rouge employee.

Compromised system I would guess.

 

[phaZed]

Ya, this stinks to high heaven. Here is the nitty-gritty of it all:
http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html?m=1

Looks like an inside job to me. For all we know, it's parent company Avast doing it. Less than a month after Avast acquires Piriform, this happens. How (in)convenient.

 

[GTP]

Ya, this stinks to high heaven. Here is the nitty-gritty of it all:
http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html?m=1

Looks like an inside job to me. For all we know, it's parent company Avast doing it. Less than a month after Avast acquires Piriform, this happens. How (in)convenient.

Interesting and informative read, thanks
I wouldn't put it past Avast doing it. I've always been wary of their products.
Looks like someone may have slipped up and they cooked up the 'hacker' story in a hurry!
Makes me wonder can we trust Defraggler, Speccy and Recuvva from now on?
And what about Avast Antivirus? Lord knows what's in that mess!

 

[TechPJC]

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/important-if-youre-ccleaner-user-you-need-read.htm

 

[glennd]

Interesting and informative read, thanks
I wouldn't put it past Avast doing it. I've always been wary of their products.
Looks like someone may have slipped up and they cooked up the 'hacker' story in a hurry!
Makes me wonder can we trust Defraggler, Speccy and Recuvva from now on?
And what about Avast Antivirus? Lord knows what's in that mess!

I wouldn't trust anything that company touches.

 

[glennd]

For all we know, it's parent company Avast doing it.

Pretty much guaranteed. They're developing quite a reputation for screwing up trusted applications.

 

[TechPJC]

CCleaner v5.35 released:
https://www.piriform.com/news/release-announcements/2017/9/20/ccleaner-v535

 

[nlinecomputers]

This is more serious than originally thought. https://www.ghacks.net/2017/09/21/ccleaner-malware-second-payload-discovered/

 

[TechLady]

Yeah...

 

[LostBit]

New statement from Avast's blog that relieves me and if not wrong relieves to many other million users:

https://blog.avast.com/additional-information-regarding-the-recent-ccleaner-apt-security-incident

I'm still with Piriform CCleaner. Great product.

 

[TechPJC]

Too Late...