Avast to present technical details of CCleaner hack at VB2017

The recently discovered malicious

CCleaner

version has become one of the biggest security stories of 2017. It is the story of a mysterious attacker who managed to put a backdoor into millions of PCs around the world, yet who then used this to install a second-stage payload on just a few dozen machines at carefully selected companies, showing both great determination and restraint.

But it is also a story of great security research: by

Morphisec

and

Cisco

, and also by

Avast

, the company that had recently acquired

CCleaner

developer

Piriform

and which thus had every incentive to play down the issue. Instead,

Avast

published several blog posts in which its researchers shared the results of their investigation with the wider security community.

Given the ‘hotness’ of the topic and its relevance for security vendors, for whom a malicious update is a horror scenario, we are thrilled that

Avast

researchers Jakub Křoustek and Jiří Bracek have offered to share their findings at

VB2017

.

They will do so on

Thursday, from 9am to 10am

in the Small Talk room, when there should be ample of time for questions and discussion.

Later the same day, Jakub will share the stage with Előd Kironský (

ESET

) to discuss the

Spora ransomware

.

Registration for VB2017 remains open, but places are filling up fast –

book now

to avoid disappointment!