• Remember the infected version of CCleaner? 2.27 million downloads, but only 40 got the royal treatment

    Posted on April 22, 2018 at 10:49 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    If you remember the widely-publicized CCleaner attack, you may be surprised to discover that of the 2.27 million infected downloads, the attackers only gave the full treatment to 40 machines. Says Lily Hay Newman at Wired:

    The hackers were apparently launching a targeted attack, looking for a few needles in the massive haystack of 2.27 million “successful” malicious downloads. Of those, about 1.65 million copies of the CCleaner malware phoned home to the attackers, and they only targeted 40 with a second stage of the attack: installing ShadowPad. All of these were technology and IT enterprise targets (most CCleaner users are individuals and home users), and the attackers were able to infiltrate 11 companies through the 40 installs they picked out.

    Fascinating story.

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