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Downloaded CCleaner lately? Oo, awks... it was stuffed with malware

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Re: Hopefully el-reg readers are aware of...

The 32 bit ccleaner.exe in the portable version of 5.33 included the Floxif malware. If you've ever run it on a system, that system should be considered compromised. You'll have to decide between Talos' recommendation to restore to a pre-CCleaner 5.33 backup of the system, or Piriform's assertion that Floxif only ever profiled machines and sent the details back to the attackers' C2 host.

The 64 bit ccleaner64.exe in the portable version of 5.33 seems to be safe. If you only ever used that version, then supposedly you have no reason to be concerned.

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