The app now supports remote management features, hard drive defragmentation, email alerts, cloud-based management features, and many more. However, as previously stated in this article, today, CCleaner is more than just a 'useless' registry cleaner. In the light of this second hack, many users have expressed their opinions today, claiming that Avast should just retire CCleaner, as the app is only a magnet for state-sponsored hackers, and that the app has no real purpose (many consider registry cleaner apps as being useless or plain harmful). While Avast refrained from attributing the attack to any threat actor, the Czech Security Information Service (BIS), the country's intelligence service, said in a press release today that Chinese hackers were behind this attack, just like in the first. The company is still investigating this second breach but said that hackers weren't successful at pushing out a malicious CCleaner release today. This was their entry point inside Avast's network. Avast said hackers compromised an employee's VPN credentials to access a temporary VPN profile that was left active and without 2FA protection.

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