At the time of the acquisition, the company said 130 million people used CCleaner. CCleaner is the main product made by London's Piriform, which was bought in July by Prague-based Avast, one of the world’s largest computer security vendors. The malicious program was slipped into legitimate software called CCleaner, which cleans up junk programs and advertising cookies to speed up devices.
This came after security researchers at Cisco Systems Inc and Morphisec Ltd alerted Piriform's parent Avast Software of the hack last week. Piriform said it worked with law enforcement and cut off communication to the servers before any malicious commands were detected. More than 2 million people downloaded tainted versions of Piriform's program, which then directed the computers to get instructions from servers under the hacker's control, Piriform said.
Hackers broke into British company Piriform Ltd's free software that optimises computer performance last month, potentially allowing them to control the devices of millions of users, the company and independent researchers said on Monday.
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