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 ...

Navigating the vast expanse of the internet can be a messy business for your computer. Websites you visit install cookies, browsing histories quickly amass and unwanted files are easily left undeleted ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hackers broke into British company Piriform Ltd's free software that optimizes computer performance last month, potentially allowing them to control the devices of millions ...

According to its parent company Avast, more than 130 million people use the performance optimization software CCleaner. And today all of those people need to be sure they’ve installed the latest ...

Hackers modified versions of the Avast-owned CCleaner software to infect potentially millions of PCs with a backdoor. The so-called supply chain attack targeting CCleaner users was discovered by ...

CCleaner, a piece of internet security software with more than two billion downloads, was recently hijacked to distribute backdoor malware to more than 2 million unsuspecting victims. According to a ...

The compromise of popular free security tool CCleaner disclosed earlier this week has taken an interesting twist as security researchers have discovered that the attack targeted major tech companies ...

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 ...