{"id":229601,"date":"2017-09-18T16:48:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T14:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=229601"},"modified":"2017-09-18T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T14:50:00","slug":"ccleaner-compromised-by-malware-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/229601-ccleaner-compromised-by-malware-infection.html","title":{"rendered":"CCleaner compromised by malware infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CCleaner, the system maintenance tool purchased by Avast, has been hit by a serious malware infection, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.talosintelligence.com\/2017\/09\/avast-distributes-malware.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cisco Talos<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The security team&#8217;s blog said the signed version of CCleaner 5.33 distributed by Avast contained a multi-stage malware payload.<\/p>\n<p>During the installation of CCleaner 5.33, Cisco Talos found the CCleaner binary contained a malicious payload that featured a Domain Generation Algorithm and hardcoded Command and Control functionality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We confirmed that this malicious version of CCleaner was being hosted on CCleaner&#8217;s download server as recently as September 11,&#8221; it stated.<\/p>\n<p>CCleaner claims its software is downloaded over 5 million times a week, with over 2 billion installations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco Talos recommended that all CCleaner users update to the latest version immediately.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/228265-windows-kernel-bug-prevents-security-apps-from-spotting-malware.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows kernel bug prevents security apps from spotting malware<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCleaner has been hit by a serious malware infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":207404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[46121,37629,801],"class_list":["post-229601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-ccleaner","tag-cisco-talos","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229603,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229601\/revisions\/229603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}