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2.3 Million Users Infected With Malware From Hacked ‘CCleaner’ Software
Over 2.3 million users have been infected with Malware from a hacked version of the CCleaner application – an application designed to optimize and enhance a computer’s performance.

Users who downloaded or updated CCleaner between August 15 and September 12 this year are being urged to remove or update the program immediately.

Thehackernews.com reports: Security researchers from Cisco Talos discovered that the download servers used by Avast to let users download the application were compromised by some unknown hackers, who replaced the original version of the software with the malicious one and distributed it to millions of users for around a month.

This incident is yet another example of supply chain attack. Earlier this year, update servers of a Ukrainian company called MeDoc were also compromised in the same way to distribute the Petya ransomware, which wreaked havoc worldwide.

Avast and Piriform have both confirmed that the Windows 32-bit version of CCleaner v5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud v1.07.3191 were affected by the malware.

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