TeamViewer announced that it has discovered the intrusion of unauthorized access to the company. Based on the results of the initial investigation, with the co-operation of the experts and the access is done via the account of a member of staff. Currently, there is no evidence that the environment in the development of the product or of the data to the client have been compromised.
The Blizzard at midnight
The house is in German and the software, known as the means of access to the distance of the same name, he wrote it last night and it's a “disorder” has been detected in the environment, and IT is to the corporation, separate from the environment in the production. The story of the intervention have been among the experts of the security, some of which were identified as the perpetrators.
TeamViewer confirmed today that the attack occurred on the 26th of June. Cyber criminals cyber use the credentials to access the employee to enter into the environment, IT's corporate. As has been the case already in the case of the other, the worse the food is hit hard, often through phishing and social engineering.
Of the house of the celebrities found with the help of the experts of the foreign authors are a group of APT29, also known as a Midnight Blizzard, Cozy Bear, or Nobelium, specializing in the spiunazhin broadcasting, and the affiliated/funded by the intelligence service of the Russian SVR. At the moment, there are no other details on the techniques used.
TeamViewer has already been implemented appropriate measures to respond to the intervention (access to the credentials of the staff, of course, that is locked). The press release highlights that the environment of a corporate IT environment, the product, and the connection of the software to have been “separated”. This would mean that the servers, networks, and the bills are to be split in order to prevent the so-called movement to the side, so to have access to the computers of others, he is compromised.
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