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 ...

Hackers are setting up fake websites for popular free and open-source software to promote malicious downloads through advertisements in Google search results. At least one prominent user on the ...

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 ...

As investigations continue about the backdoor that was planted in CCleaner, Avast said it has found that the actors behind the attack were planning to install a third round of malware on compromised ...

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, ...

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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 ...

Facepalm: Many users of popular system cleaning app, CCleaner, have complained that installing the software also installs the Avast anti-virus program without their permission. We have confirmed those ...