CCleaner Malware Hack: What to Know and How to Protect Yourself

If you use a software tool called CCleaner to keep your Windows PC humming smoothly, keep reading: the utility was just indicted by Piriform, the British company that makes CCleaner, in a troubling blog post.

In short, it seems a recent version of CCleaner — as well as related product CCleaner Cloud (the online version) — were infiltrated by hackers and weaponized with malware of the sort that harvests and transmits user data for nefarious purposes.