Hackers compromised free CCleaner software

By |2019-11-04T08:10:36+00:0019th September, 2017|News, Security|

Hackers broke into the Piriform (now owned by Avast) system and modified the CCleaner program to include a malicious program designed to direct computers to get instructions from servers under the hacker's control. A version of CCleaner downloaded in August and September included remote administration tools that tried to connect to several unregistered web pages, [...]