Teamviewer was breached by Chinese hackers in 2016

TeamViewer is one of the best known remote desktop sharing programs. The company that owns it has confirmed that in 2016 the program was violated and attacked by Chinese hackers. Some statements that have caught many by surprise, which have been made in German media. The attackers made use of the Trojan Winnti malware, whose activities were previously found to be linked to the Chinese state intelligence system.

TeamViewer was breached by Chinese hackers in 2016

Winnti has been active since at least 2010, has been responsible in the past for other attacks. For example, gaming organizations, in addition to financial attacks have been carried out with it, around the world.

Chinese hackers

This group is known for using attacks that are based on infecting legitimate software or servers with malicious updates, so that they have the ability to install malware on the systems of end users. When someone has been successfully infected, a back door is downloaded to compromised computers. In this way, they can control them remotely. This is what would have happened with TeamViewer.

There have been criticisms of the company, which in its day did not say anything about this attack they suffered. But three years later everything has been revealed about it. Although it seems that there was no theft of information in this regard on their part.

TeamViewer has said that they are constantly being attacked or attempted. So the company invests heavily in good security, which prevents most of them from going further. Although in this case not everything went as expected.

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