Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-10-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: Avast
Affected country: Czechia
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of Network Infrastructure
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Avast discloses a security breach that impacted its internal network. The attack's purpose was to insert malware into the CCleaner software, similar to the 2017 incident. The breach occurred because the attacker compromised an employee's VPN credentials.