Hackers broke into British company Piriform's free software for optimising computer performance last month potentially allowing them to control the devices of more than two million users. The ...

CCleaner, a system-optimization tool with more than 2 billion downloads worldwide, is used by many Windows, Mac and Android users who want looking to keep their devices running as fast as possible.

If you use CCleaner for Windows by Avast (as I do) you should check what version you are running and immediately update or remove the software; researchers at Cisco’s Talos unit and Morphisec have ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - 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 ...

A legitimate version of Avast's CCleaner software package was compromised to deliver malware, affecting CCleaner v5.33 as well as CCleaner Cloud version 1.07.3191. Some 2.27 million endpoints are ...

Malware has been detected within Piriform's CCleaner, a popular registry cleaner and space recovery tool. The malware-infected package had been distributed for nearly a month. Share on Facebook (opens ...