fallepit
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I saw some other user posted about the initial report on the 20th but i guess there was a new find about what all happened with the CCleaner code injection.
So basically the legit download from Piriform/CCleaner was infected with added code to the normal legit executable. To what the initial report said was it executed one payload that gained computers information and sent it to a C&C server.
This second report is now stating that the information gathered was used to target high value targets and execute a second payload to which no one knows what was executed, most likely something pretty nasty. If you have or had CCleaner on anything important it may be smart to copy personal files, scan them all a few times with different AV's to be extra anal and do a fresh windows instal.
Here is the article if anyone want's to read up.
So basically the legit download from Piriform/CCleaner was infected with added code to the normal legit executable. To what the initial report said was it executed one payload that gained computers information and sent it to a C&C server.
This second report is now stating that the information gathered was used to target high value targets and execute a second payload to which no one knows what was executed, most likely something pretty nasty. If you have or had CCleaner on anything important it may be smart to copy personal files, scan them all a few times with different AV's to be extra anal and do a fresh windows instal.
Here is the article if anyone want's to read up.
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