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COMPROMISED WITH MALWARE –

CCleaner version 5.33 was compromised with
malware. Please check to see which version of
CCleaner you have on your computer.

Open CCleaner and you will find the version num-
ber in the upper left corner on the title bar.

Version 5.33 of the CCleaner app offered for
download between August 15 and September 12
was modified to include the Floxif malware, ac-
cording to a report published by Cisco Talos a few WHICH FILES SHOULD YOU BACK UP ON
minutes ago. Updating to recent versions removes YOUR WINDOWS PC? – Your PC’s hard drive
malware. could fail tomorrow, or a software bug could erase
your files, so backups are critical. But you don’t
need to back up all the files on your PC. That
Floxif is a malware downloader that gathers infor- would just waste space and make your backups
mation about infected systems and sends it back take longer to complete.
to its C&C server. The malware also had the ability
to download and run other binaries, but at the time
of writing, there is no evidence that Floxif down- The All-Important
loaded additional second-stage payloads on in- Rule of Backups –
fected hosts. The most important
rule of backups is
that any important
The malware collected information such as com- data should exist in
puter name, a list of installed software, a list of two or more physi-
running processes, MAC addresses for the first cal locations at
three network interfaces, and unique IDs to identi- once. You cannot
fy each computer in part. Researchers noted that create a backup and
the malware only ran on 32-bit systems. The mal- delete the original. If
ware also quit execution if the user was not using you do, it’s no longer really a backup. You still
an administrator account. have just one copy of your data—you just moved it

to a different place.
Avast recently bought Piriform – below from Avast
CTO: You might think this is obvious, but you’d be sur-
prised how often we’ve been approached by read-
In an email to Bleeping Computer, Avast CTO ers that lost their data after their “backup” drive
Ondrej Vlcek said that updating CCleaner to the died.
most recent recent versions fixes any issues, as
“the only malware to remove is the one embedded Go to this How-To Geek Web page and read about
in the CCleaner binary itself.” the best method for backups. http://bit.ly/2gySVoB

“The affected software (CCleaner v5.33.6162 and
CCleaner Cloud v1.07.3191) has been installed on You Play a vital role in
2.27M machines from its inception up until now,” the Chain of Survival!
Vlcek also added. “We believe that these users The Waukegan Fire Depart-
are safe now as our investigation indicates we ment is offering WEEKLY
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“There is no indication or evidence that any addi- ers.
tional “malware” has been delivered through the Contact: FF Elizabeth Mass (847-815-4459 or
backdoor,” Vlcek added. Elizabeth.Mass@waukeganIL.gov

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