ccleaner Bot

X-Force Botnet Report ccleaner

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				Date:
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				<span>Mar 3, 2020</span>
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				Trend:
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				<span style="color:rgb(86,129,43);font-family:ibm;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:1;text-decoration:inherit;text-transform:none;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:0px;border-right-style:none;border-right-width:0px;border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;height:1px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;width:1px;">The number of botnet clients has decreased.</span></span>
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				Peak:
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				<span>Feb 19, 2020</span>
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				Impact:
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				<span>14 Clients</span>
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					Most Infected Countries or Regions
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						Argentina
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						Brazil
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						Ecuador
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						France
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						Indonesia
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						Mexico
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						Netherlands
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						Palestinian Territories
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						Poland
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						Spain
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Did hackers do this some how?

The info from that report is from 2017.

Things have moved on after having been discussed on the forum at the time it happened.

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