CCleaner is an application used by many people to clean and get rid of traces of files that have been deleted and perform some other actions in order to improve the speed of the computer. The program has been downloaded more than two billion times, so it will always be a target hackers to make it a locomotive to the computers of users to steal their data.
In a letter from security experts at Cisco Talos, hackers were able to hit the famous malware program and may be affected by about 2.27 million users. This malicious code was found in version 5.53, confirmed by Avast.
You will see in the picture below the code added to the infected version, compared to a clean copy of the program
Avast has confirmed that there is no evidence that the malicious code included in this version of the program is the emergence of a kind of malicious files, such as ransom or keylogger on the victim's computer. Even this malicious software has been programmed to collect various user data, including computer name, list of programs on the device (including Windows updates), list of processes and data when running some programs with a delegated administrator and so on.
What do you do then? :
I recommend that you immediately check the version of the program "Ccleaner" embedded in your device is identical to the number of the infected version.
Second, you remove the program from your computer, download the new version of the official program site and do not download it from an unknown source.
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