The malicious program was slipped into legitimate software called CCleaner, which cleans up junk programs and advertising cookies to speed up devices.ĬCleaner is the main product made by London’s Piriform, which was bought in July by Prague-based Avast, one of the world’s largest computer security vendors.
This came after security researchers at Cisco Systems Inc CSCO.O and Morphisec Ltd alerted Piriform's parent Avast Software of the hack last week. Piriform said it worked with law enforcement and cut off communication to the servers before any malicious commands were detected. More than 2 million people downloaded tainted versions of Piriform’s program, which then directed the computers to get instructions from servers under the hacker’s control, Piriform said. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017.
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