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Amanda
Moderator
8 years ago

PSA for CCleaner users!!

Hackers Hid Backdoor In CCleaner Security App With 2 Billion Downloads -- 2.3 Million Infected   Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/09/18/ccleaner-cybersecurity-app-inf...
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MarkJFine
Professor

Wow... Good to know.

 

Things like this is the single reason why I've avoided the temptation to use things like password utilities (like 1password) and such. That, and cloud-based things that make apps hand-off friendly.

 

All nice ideas, but as we know, that road is always paved with good intentions and someone's always out there looking for an exploit.

  • MarkJFine's avatar
    MarkJFine
    Professor
    8 years ago

    Massive kudos to ClamAV.

  • Amanda's avatar
    Amanda
    Moderator
    8 years ago

    Thanks C0RR0SIVE I just grabbed the link off twitter, didn't realize it had so much junk on it without adblock/ublock origin on. 

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      MarkJFine
      Professor
      8 years ago

      Have seen some reports where the malware reports to something in the 216.126.x.x range.
      Would not surprise me if it's ServerCrate, which uses 216.126.224.0 - 216.126.239.255 in my spam ID list.