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The CCleaner affair: the 2017 supply chain attack explained

Thibaud Robin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200

The CCleaner affair: the supply chain attack that backdoored 2.27 million PCs The CCleaner affair is one of the textbook cases of a software supply chain attack. In August 2017, version 5.33 of the most popular cleaning utility in the world was distributed through official channels with a backdoor grafted inside. Signed with the vendor’s genuine certificate, the update infected 2,270,000 computers in one month, without a single antivirus reacting.

OpenClaw: the security risks of the autonomous AI agent

Thibaud Robin — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

OpenClaw: the security risks of the autonomous AI agent OpenClaw is the tech project with the most meteoric popularity in GitHub history: more than 350,000 stars in a few months, a foundation funded by OpenAI, and a seductive promise. Where most AIs are limited to spitting out text in a chat window, OpenClaw acts: it reads your emails, manages your calendar, writes code and runs it directly on your computer.

Temu and your data: permissions, Pinduoduo malware and privacy

Thibaud Robin — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0200

Temu and your data: permissions, Pinduoduo malware and privacy, the dark side of the app Is Temu dangerous for your data? The question keeps coming back since the meteoric arrival in Europe of the “little orange app” with unbeatable prices. Officially, Temu is just a marketplace. Unofficially, its parent company has already been caught red-handed exploiting an Android zero-day in a sister app, its early versions requested 29 permissions, and an independent Swiss report flagged two technical anomalies typical of malware.