Weekly Threat Report 16th March 2018

CCleaner update

Cyber security company Avast continues to investigate the 2017 supply chain attacks involving clean-up tool CCleaner. For a month last summer, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attackers are reported to have maliciously modified versions of CCleaner and CCleaner Cloud at source, before being downloaded by 2.27 million customers worldwide. The attackers then selected a small number of high profile technology and telecommunications companies to receive a secondary payload.

Avast…

Link: Weekly Threat Report 16th March 2018
Source: NCSC Reports