![]() The attackers had penetrated into one of the update servers of Piriform and injected a two-staged backdoor in the executable binaries of CCleaner and CCleaner Cloud. ![]() Piriform confirmed that CCleaner version and CCleaner Cloud version, on 32-bit Windows systems, were illegally modified before they were released to public. It was reported that approximately 2.27 million users were affected by the malware-laden version of CCleaner. This is of concern because CCleaner is used by over 75 million users worldwide. It enables the management of CCleaner, on multiple PCs, from a single interface. CCleaner Cloud is a cloud-based control center for CCleaner. It removes potentially unwanted files, such as temporary internet files, and invalid Windows Registry entries. Recently security researchers at Cisco Talos discovered that malicious hackers had injected a malware into Piriform CCleaner and CCleaner Cloud. ![]()
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