Hackers use CCleaner as malware host

 

ITAKU - Hackers use CCleaner as malware host

Around 2.27 million users of Piriform's popular CCleaner security app have been advised to update the application—a result of sophisticated hacker-hidden malware. Discovered by researchers at Cisco's Talos division, hackersare thought to have run code from a remote IP address using a backdoor.

Kaspersky Reveals Data on Crypto Mining Software

IngetakuNews - Kaspersky Reveals Data on Crypto Mining Software

In the first eight months of 2017, more than 1.6 million computers were targeted by crypto mining malware attacks.

The Russia-based cybersecurity the figure represents the number of computers, running Kaspersky software, that were protected from the malicious software, which can turn a machine into a remotely-controlled mining device without the owner actually knowing.