#WAS CCLEANER FOR MAC HACKED SOFTWARE#
“Supply chain attacks are a very effective way to distribute malicious software into target organizations. Supply Chain AttacksĪccording to Talos, the hacking of the CCleaner hack is another example of supply chain attack. The company also boasts that per month, the application can clean over 35 million GB of space–or about 7 billion selfies-worth of data.
CCleaner is an application that allows its users to conduct routine maintenance on their computer systems.Īccording to the Piriform website, the creator of CCleaner acquired by Avast in July of this year, the CCleaner application has over 2 billion downloads worldwide as of November 2016. For a period of time, the legitimate signed version of CCleaner 5.33 being distributed by Avast also contained a multi-stage malware payload that rode on top of the installation of CCleaner.”Īvast, a company which focuses on developing antiviruses and other security applications for Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS, owns CCleaner. “Talos recently observed a case where the download servers used by software vendor to distribute a legitimate software package were leveraged to deliver malware to unsuspecting victims. If you’re one of the millions of individuals who downloaded the CCleaner application on your computer between this last August 15th and September 12th, be warned–your computer was potentially infected by the CCleaner malware.Ĭybersecurity experts from Cisco Talos, the threat intelligence group of Cisco, reported that unidentified hackers have successfully infiltrated the download servers of Avast that let users download the CCleaner app and replaced it with what they dubbed as the CCleaner malware.Ī part of the threat intelligence report that the Talos researchers published read:
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