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Alert over booby-trapped security software
Alert over booby-trapped security software
Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306387 A security company has issued a warning after its software was compromised by malicious hackers. Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had been made available in August and September. Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from Android phones and Windows PCs. Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised version before any harm had been done. Cleaning up If the malicious hackers who had managed to subvert the software had not been spotted, they could have remotely taken over the devices of the 2.27 million people who had downloaded version 5.33 of the program, said Paul Yung, from Piriform. Mr Yung said the company had spotted some "suspicious activity" on 12 September that led it to discover version 5.33 had been "illegally modified" before it had been made available to the public. The modified version was available for about a month. .... more ..... -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Alert over booby-trapped security software
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:22:40 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote: Alert over booby-trapped security software Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306387 A security company has issued a warning after its software was compromised by malicious hackers. Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had been made available in August and September. Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from Android phones and Windows PCs. Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised version before any harm had been done. Cleaning up If the malicious hackers who had managed to subvert the software had not been spotted, they could have remotely taken over the devices of the 2.27 million people who had downloaded version 5.33 of the program, said Paul Yung, from Piriform. Mr Yung said the company had spotted some "suspicious activity" on 12 September that led it to discover version 5.33 had been "illegally modified" before it had been made available to the public. The modified version was available for about a month. And millions of people installed it, and were not hacked. There are no registry changes on my PC, and no attempts were made to phone home (other than to Piriform, which it does, even if you turn off updates). Kaspersky, one of, if not the best AV out there still does not detect the so-called trojan. So maybe it's just a false flag ? CCleaner is losing ground to other cleaners like Wise Disk Cleaner ever since Avast bought them out ... it needs the hype. On behalf of Avast, I have to thank you. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Alert over booby-trapped security software
On 09/18/2017 11:22 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
Alert over booby-trapped security software Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306387 A security company has issued a warning after its software was compromised by malicious hackers. Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had been made available in August and September. Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from Android phones and Windows PCs. Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised version before any harm had been done. Cleaning up If the malicious hackers who had managed to subvert the software had not been spotted, they could have remotely taken over the devices of the 2.27 million people who had downloaded version 5.33 of the program, said Paul Yung, from Piriform. Mr Yung said the company had spotted some "suspicious activity" on 12 September that led it to discover version 5.33 had been "illegally modified" before it had been made available to the public. The modified version was available for about a month. ... more ..... Thanks for the info. Only have CCleaner on one machine and it's an older version. I never updated it because I assumed all I'd get is a cartoon-like GUI |
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Alert over booby-trapped security software
On 19/9/2017 2:07 AM, Shadow wrote:
And millions of people installed it, and were not hacked. There are no registry changes on my PC, and no attempts were made to phone home (other than to Piriform, which it does, even if you turn off updates). Kaspersky, one of, if not the best AV out there still does not detect the so-called trojan. So maybe it's just a false flag ? CCleaner is losing ground to other cleaners like Wise Disk Cleaner ever since Avast bought them out ... it needs the hype. On behalf of Avast, I have to thank you. To err is human. To deliberately err is a grand plot? -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Alert over booby-trapped security software
"philo" wrote in message news
On 09/18/2017 11:22 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: Alert over booby-trapped security software Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306387 A security company has issued a warning after its software was compromised by malicious hackers. Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had been made available in August and September. Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from Android phones and Windows PCs. Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised version before any harm had been done. Cleaning up If the malicious hackers who had managed to subvert the software had not been spotted, they could have remotely taken over the devices of the 2.27 million people who had downloaded version 5.33 of the program, said Paul Yung, from Piriform. Mr Yung said the company had spotted some "suspicious activity" on 12 September that led it to discover version 5.33 had been "illegally modified" before it had been made available to the public. The modified version was available for about a month. ... more ..... Thanks for the info. Only have CCleaner on one machine and it's an older version. I never updated it because I assumed all I'd get is a cartoon-like GUI The new one still looks a lot like the old one, at least on my PC. -- Buffalo |
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Alert over booby-trapped security software
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
Alert over booby-trapped security software Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41306387 A security company has issued a warning after its software was compromised by malicious hackers. Piriform told users a booby-trapped version of its CCleaner software had been made available in August and September. Millions of people use the CCleaner program to remove unwanted junk from Android phones and Windows PCs. Piriform's owner, Avast, said it had managed to remove the compromised version before any harm had been done. Cleaning up If the malicious hackers who had managed to subvert the software had not been spotted, they could have remotely taken over the devices of the 2.27 million people who had downloaded version 5.33 of the program, said Paul Yung, from Piriform. Mr Yung said the company had spotted some "suspicious activity" on 12 September that led it to discover version 5.33 had been "illegally modified" before it had been made available to the public. The modified version was available for about a month. ... more ..... Only affects 32 bit Windows, not 64. |
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