In other words, to the best of our knowledge, we were able to disarm the threat before it was able to do any harm.” Users of CCleaner Cloud version have received an automatic update. Before delving into the technical details, let me say that the threat has now been resolved in the sense that the rogue server is down, other potential servers are out of the control of the attacker, and we’re moving all existing CCleaner v users to the latest version. We also immediately contacted law enforcement units and worked with them on resolving the issue. Based on further analysis, we found that the version of CCleaner and the version of CCleaner Cloud was illegally modified before it was released to the public, and we started an investigation process. A suspicious activity was identified on September 12th, 2017, where we saw an unknown IP address receiving data from software found in version of CCleaner, and CCleaner Cloud version, on 32-bit Windows systems. “We would like to apologize for a security incident that we have recently found in CCleaner version and CCleaner Cloud version. Piriform issued a press release to their Cleaner customers, users and supporters with more details: The Android version for phones doesn’t seem to be affected. The versions that were affected are CCleaner v and CCleaner Cloud v for 32-bit Windows PCs. Approximately 3% of their CCleaner customers, specifically those running 32-bit Windows 10, were affected. Piriform announced on Monday that on September 12th, 2017 they discovered that the 32-bit version of their CCleaner and CCleaner Cloud programs were infected with malware.
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