Malware that steals your passwords, credit cards, and crypto wallets is being promoted through search results for a pirated copy of the CCleaner Pro Windows optimization program. This new malware ...

The CCleaner malware, which placed a backdoor in the widely used system maintenance tool, appears to be more serious than was thought. Why is the CCleaner malware so dangerous? Should enterprises shy ...

Malware has been detected within Piriform's CCleaner, a popular registry cleaner and space recovery tool. The malware-infected package had been distributed for nearly a month. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Avast said it believes that threat actors are again looking to target CCleaner in a supply chain attack. Czech antivirus vendor Avast on Monday warned that hackers were able to access its internal ...

Ever since it bought Piriform in July 2017, the CCleaner software has brought only headaches to Czech cybersecurity firm Avast. This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet/TechRepublic special feature, ...

It’s fair to say CCleaner has lost a lot of fans since Avast took over Piriform last year. We’ve seen problems with malware, bundled software, and pop-up ads, and then most recently Avast made a ...

The security sector is waking up to the insidious threat posed by software supply chain attacks, where hackers don't attack individual devices or networks directly, but rather the companies that ...

Hackers Target Avast's CCleaner Again Using Stolen VPN Logins This comes two years after hackers stole trade secrets from high-profile tech firms by rigging version 5.33 of Avast's CCleaner with ...

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Ever since Avast took over Piriform in 2017, fans of the popular system cleaning tool CCleaner have had to put up with problem after problem, beginning -- yes beginning! -- with malware, bundled ...