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Piriform CCleaner and Avast Servers Hacked

Piriform, developer of PC maintenance tool CCleaner, announced it was breached by hackers who infected an estimated 2 million users with malware. Piriform says the incident has since been resolved, but encourages users to update the software to prevent


The malware, discovered by security researchers at Cisco Talos, accompanied downloads of certain versions of CCleaner. Luckily, not every CCleaner user is affected by the malware breach. “This compromise only affected customers with the 32-bit version of the v5.33.6162 of CCleaner and the v1.07.3191 of CCleaner Cloud,” said the company in a statement addressing the breach. “No other Piriform or CCleaner products were affected.
Piriform’s parent company, Avast said that updating CCleaner to its latest version, 5.34, removes the offending malware, while users of CCleaner Cloud should already have received a software update addressing the issue.

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