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Cisco Talos has discovered a malicious bit of code injected by hackers that could have affected more than 2 million users who downloaded the most recent update.

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It seems that CClearner, one of PCWorld's recommendations for the best free software for new PCs, might not have been keeping your PC so clean after all.

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I am a frequent speaker at professional conferences such as the Minnesota Bloggers Conference, Secure360 Security Conference in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, the (ISC)2 World Congress 2016, and the ISSA International Conference 2017, and many local community organizations, including Chambers of Commerce, SCORE, and several school districts.Does CCleaner keep your computers clean or not so much? I have worked in corporate, military, government, and workforce development training environments I work as an information technology and cybersecurity instructor for several training and certification organizations. I also teach Cybersecurity Awareness Training classes. In addition to consulting on security products and services, I also conduct security audits, compliance audits, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. I am a cybersecurity and IT instructor, cybersecurity analyst, pen-tester, trainer, and speaker. Now it seems that third party sites may be trafficking in software containing malicious alterations, as well. Sites such as Major Geeks and have been on my radar for years because of their habit of pushing additional unwanted crapware on unsuspecting computer users. But one way to protect yourself for downloading altered software products is to stick with the official company download web sites. The information provided on the company blog does not indicate whether the distribution servers were company owned download sites, or third party download sites. Piriform says in their blog that they have identified and either taken down or disabled the servers that were responsible for distributing the altered product.

Presumably, this data collection was the first stage in a more involved attack.

Additional information whether the process is running with administrator privileges, whether it is a 64-bit system, etc.

MAC addresses of first three network adapters.

List of installed software, including Windows updates.

Once installed, the malicious code would collect the following information about the local system: The code modification created a backdoor that was capable of running code downloaded from a server at a remote location on the Internet. If you have not updated your copy, do it now.

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They have also pushed an update to owners of the affected products.

The company has initiated an investigation which is ongoing at this time. The software was illegally modified before it was released. This affected CCleaner version and CCleaner Cloud version. This warning was published earlier in one of my Weekend Updates, but due to the popularity of this product, warranted a longer article. Recently, the CCleaner software code was modified to include a malicious backdoor. I have used CCleaner myself several times as one of the tools I used to clean up a malware infection. I have my doubts about the real effectiveness of these utilities, but many of my clients swear by it. Piriform’s CCleaner is a popular computer cleaning and optimizing product that many people use.