![]() ![]() “Attackers have shown that they are willing to leverage this trust to distribute malware while remaining undetected.”ĬCleaner is urging users to update CCleaner, while others insist they should scan their devices for malware and delete the application. “In many organizations data received from commonly software vendors rarely receives the same level of scrutiny as that which is applied to what is perceived as untrusted sources,” Talos wrote in a study of the attack. Hackers seem to have taken advantage of users’ trust while CCleaner developers failed to sew up a potentially devastating bug. ![]() Some 2.27 million users have been affected by a flaw in the tool that lets hackers inject malware into the app. MALWARE IN CCLEANER AFFECTS UP TO 2.26M USERSĬCleaner is a utility program to clean unwanted files from a user’s computer it’s been downloaded more than 2 billion times, according to Avast, CCleaner’s parent company. Subscribe to receive the same weekly cybersecurity news directly to your inbox. This originally appeared in G2 Crowd's Cybersecurity Digest. Once TF published details, users on Reddit and Twitter condemned the practice. User dino111111 called The Pirate Bay’s practice “an entitled and absolutely dumbass move.” Officials at The Pirate Bay responded saying it was simply a test to explore new ways of generating revenue, but users remain displeased and distrustful. TorrentFreak, a torrent news site, is reporting the cause of the spike to be an embedded Bitcoin miner on the site. Users became curious after seeing their CPU usage spike while visiting certain pages on the site. They utilized visitors’ central processing to mine cryptocurrency while visiting the site. PIRATE BAY ADMITS TO HIJACKING VISITOR BROWSERS TO MINE CRYPTOCURRENCYĪ bit of user uproar has begun as the popular media site The Pirate Bay came clean about hijacking users’ browsers. ![]()
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