Bleeping Computer

Hackers push malware via Google search ads for VLC, 7-Zip, CCleaner

Hackers are setting up fake websites for popular free and open-source software to promote malicious downloads through advertisements in Google search results. At least one prominent user on the ...
PC Magazine

Windows Defender Flags CCleaner as 'Potentially Unwanted Application'

Windows Defender Flags CCleaner as 'Potentially Unwanted Application' Microsoft doesn't like how CCleaner will try to install other applications, including Avast Free Antivirus and Google's Chrome ...
Neowin

The CCleaner malware targeted tech firms like Microsoft and Google

It's now evident that the CCleaner malware attack was a targeted operation rather than being a brute force one. New clue suggests that the attackers targeted 18 tech companies for possible IP theft.
Dark Reading

CCleaner Malware Targeted Tech Giants Cisco, Google, Microsoft

When Cisco Talos and Morphisec discovered a version of Avast CCleaner had been compromised to deliver malware, it was bad enough to learn millions of endpoints were threatened. Now, security experts ...
ZDNet

Avast: No plans to discontinue CCleaner following second hack in two years

Ever since it bought Piriform in July 2017, the CCleaner software has brought only headaches to Czech cybersecurity firm Avast. This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet/TechRepublic special feature, ...