Remote Access Giant TeamViewer Says Russian Spies Hacked Its Corporate Network (techcrunch.com) 28
TeamViewer, the company that makes widely used remote access tools for companies, has confirmed an ongoing cyberattack on its corporate network. TechCrunch: In a statement Friday, the company attributed the compromise to government-backed hackers working for Russian intelligence, known as APT29 (and Midnight Blizzard). The Germany-based company said its investigation so far points to an initial intrusion on June 26 "tied to credentials of a standard employee account within our corporate IT environment."
TeamViewer said that the cyberattack "was contained" to its corporate network and that the company keeps its internal network and customer systems separate. The company added that it has "no evidence that the threat actor gained access to our product environment or customer data." Martina Dier, a spokesperson for TeamViewer, declined to answer a series of questions from TechCrunch, including whether the company has the technical ability, such as logs, to determine what, if any, data was accessed or exfiltrated from its network.
TeamViewer said that the cyberattack "was contained" to its corporate network and that the company keeps its internal network and customer systems separate. The company added that it has "no evidence that the threat actor gained access to our product environment or customer data." Martina Dier, a spokesperson for TeamViewer, declined to answer a series of questions from TechCrunch, including whether the company has the technical ability, such as logs, to determine what, if any, data was accessed or exfiltrated from its network.
Cue the threads (Score:2)
So, the /. comments on news of Russia compromising computer systems always come to two opposites: half of them say "how do you know this was Russia! This is just russophobia, could be anybody." And the other half of them say "We already know Russia is hacking everything they can get their hands on, why is this even news?"
I wonder which it will be this time?
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It will be the correct reaction followed by the incorrect reaction catching up to meet quota.
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Two things can be true.
We put up with this shit too long. (Score:3)
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Hey this is Microsoft we're talking about, not Tiktok.
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Cyber attacks should be the responsibility of the nation of origin. If attackers bounce though multiple nations, each one in the chain is responsible for their link.
And start considering them acts of war... Which probably means our cyber attacks are going to have to be restrained as well. You know Western countries are 'playing' too.
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But now it's out of control, so the civilized nations of the world should decide on a strategy of walking back our historical tolerance.
Rather than deciding how we're going to retaliate without escalation to global thermonuclear war, perhaps we should have a chat about whether it's appropriate for Russia (and perhaps China as well) to remain on the global Internet? It's not like they're allowing information into their countries that may undermine their regimes. The Internet is already fragmented, thanks to the Great Wall and other measures, so pray tell, why do we continue to do absolutely nothing to stop cyber-crime coming from hostile f
As an American I'm just glad (Score:3, Informative)
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Is it possible to have any topic in an election year that some Americans don't make about the elections?
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Is it possible to have any topic in an election year that some Americans don't make about the elections?
No.
America has the largest military on earth (Score:3)
Our politics effects *everyone*. I don't like that any more than you do, but it's silly to pretend otherwise.
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Our politics effects *everyone*. I don't like that any more than you do, but it's silly to pretend otherwise.
Nothing changed in terms of US policies from Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden. Hell Obama did not even manage to close down gitmo.
Which of the senile guys you elect has zero impact on anything here.
As for the military that your elites like to use, yeah Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. All my life has been these stupid US conflicts that don't resolve anything and don't change shit in the west. Just kill a ton of innocents for no good reason.
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Poor little marxist agitator.
It must a be a terrible day for your. Waking up to pages and pages of nominally friendly media trashing your candidate. After a couple hours of that here comes SCOTUS to kick you commie pricks in balls, axing Chevron, and the fake Jan 6 obstruction charges.
Just ICYMI - looks the SEC won't get play trial court any more either, after yesterday.
I hope it stings asshole. We are taking America back! MAGA!
"Normally friendly"? (Score:3)
It's why you can't figure out right wing politics don't work. Your thinking is narrowed by the right wing bias in media.
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we don't have a major political party [npr.org] getting cozy with these "Russian" characters. They sound like bad news.
Lol I'm old enough to remember when it was the Democrats who were supposed to be in bed with the Russians.
But that's right, you liked that brand of murderous totalitarians.
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Just because someone dislikes one side doesn't mean they like the other.
FWIW, I'm in favor of Biden because of Aesop's parable about the frogs who wanted a king:
"Better kind log than king stork."
Spammy jerks (Score:3)
Told ya so (Score:2)
See? ssh *IS* clearly better than TeamViewer.
Teamviewer! funny! (Score:4, Informative)
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Remote Management or "RMM" tools are one of the biggest security risks facing US companies right now. IT Departments and small-to-large IT companies roll them out, giving the software persistent full system or admin access on every workstation. The software is often made by companies that are smallish and don't ha
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"RMM software should require user interaction to start a session and then either uninstall itself or revoke all its permissions until next time."
TeamViewer can be deployed to work like this a couple ways.
But the reason its usually not, is because your IT helpdesk then spends upwards of 50% (often far upwards) of their time trying to reach end users and talk them through the 'required user interaction'.
And its fuck-my-life level work -- like yes ok, doubleclick click the teamviewer icon -- it should be on yo
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With TeamViewer I use the PortableApps version. For most users there's really no reason for it to be installed on the system ready to accept connections at all times.
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Like a decade ago, I use TeamViewer a little. It worked pretty well but had to set up accounts and software and all that to connect some computer and help my parents.
Now in the world of Zoom and the many clones, what is the value proposition of TeamViewer. I've never encountered it in my personal or corporate world. It's Zoom, Meet, and Webex when banking is involved (looking at you Cisco).
Yet TeamViewer has enough money to be a prominent sponsor of Mercedes Formula 1. They are prominently displayed on the