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Title: CCleaner [Aug/Sept 2017] has a backdoor 8¬o
Post by: RD on 19/09/2017 00:10:04

Quote from: arstechnica

"Copies of the malicious software installer were distributed to CCleaner users between August 15 and September 12, 2017, using a valid certificate issued to Piriform Ltd by Symantec."

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/backdoor-malware-planted-in-legitimate-software-updates-to-ccleaner/ (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/backdoor-malware-planted-in-legitimate-software-updates-to-ccleaner/)

Good job I'm late at installing updates: my version of CCleaner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner) is from May 2017.

Title: Re: CCleaner [Aug/Sept 2017] has a backdoor 8¬o
Post by: chris on 21/09/2017 19:01:47

Wow - the world gets scarier every day. Luckily I've not downloaded Ccleaner lately.