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We work with you to develop the message and conduct the interview or product review in a safe and collaborative way. ITWire TV offers a unique value to the Tech Sector by providing a range of video interviews, news, views and reviews, and also provides the opportunity for vendors to promote your company and your marketing messages. We will post an update as soon as we learn more.' From our side, we continue working on getting access and analysing the additional stages of the payload (post stage 2). 'However, proper investigation is in order and necessary to fully understand the impact and take remediation actions. 'Obviously, the fact that the second-stage payload has been delivered to a computer connected to a company network doesn’t mean that the company network has been compromised. This post by Avast may not be the last, with the team writing, 'Our security team has reached out to all companies proven to be part of the second stage, and we’re committed to working with them to resolve the issue fully.

The total number of unique PCs that received the second-stage payload was 40.Īnother claim by Avast in this post was that 'despite there being a large number of tech/telco companies in China, Russia and India, there are no companies from these countries on the list of companies targeted by this attack'.

The total number of unique PCs (unique MAC addresses) that communicated with the CnC server was 1,646,536.

The total number of connections to the CnC server was 5,686,677.

In its latest post, Avast said it had now found that:

Talos listed Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, HTC, Samsung, VMware,Akamai, Sony, Singtel, D-Link, O2, Vodafone, German gaming and gambling company Gauselmann, Linksys, Gmail, MSI, Dynamic Network Services and Epson. News of the compromise of CCleaner, software that Avast acquired when it bought its creator Piriform, broke on 17 September through a detailed blog post by Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group.įollowing that, there have been three posts by Avast, with the company having to correct itself more than once it claimed that the malware's second-stage payload was not delivered to anyone but had to admit this was wrong once Talos issued a second post with evidence that the payload had reached a number of targets (graphic on right).

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