Software used by millions not compromised this time, says biz
On Monday, security biz Avast said it believes some of its credentials were stolen and abused in an unsuccessful attempt to subvert CCleaner, a file cleanup utility that it acquired in 2017.
Jaya Baloo, CISO at Avast Software, said in a blog post that the security shop spotted suspicious behavior on its network last month and began working with outside security groups, including the Czech intelligence agency, Security Information Service (BIS), to investigate the incident.
Following its acquisition of CCleaner two years ago, Avast acknowledged that it had distributed a compromised version of the software that contained nefarious code. Back then, the malware was believed to have infected about 2.27 million ..
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