“Any and all software developed for internet use can be hacked and compromised. Michael Patterson, CEO of Plixer, stresses that questionable or suspicious behavior by otherwise legitimate software makes it more difficult to determine what is malicious and what is not. The investigation is still ongoing.”Ī spokesperson for Avast, which acquired Piriform in July, told TechCrunch, “We believe that these users are safe now as our investigation indicates we were able to disarm the threat before it was able to do any harm.”Īvast also claims that no customers running CCleaner on Android mobile devices were affected by this compromise. Piriform states, “At this stage, we don’t want to speculate how the unauthorized code appeared in the CCleaner software, where the attack originated from, how long it was being prepared and who stood behind it.
There aren’t many other details at this point.
Additional information whether the process is running with administrator privileges, whether it is a 64-bit system, etc.MAC addresses of first three network adapters.List of installed software, including Windows updates.According to Piriform’s analysis of the code, it collects:
The malicious code collects a variety of details about the compromised system, reconnaissance type information that may be put to use for future attacks.
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