In mid-July, Avast Software, one of the world’s largest security companies, acquired. the humble creator of CCleaner, the humble successful PC tune-up utility. The researchers decided that was a big enough target for a. complex infection which dropped its. payload through. Avast and began activity at an as-yet-unspecified time. It now looks like it was planned at least two months ago, in stealth mode, in advance of the. acquisition announcement.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/abtv/ccleaner-infection-reveals-sophisticated-hack/a/d-id/736501