Has Your TeamViewer Account Been Hacked? Here’s What to Do Immediately

Do you have remote login software TeamViewer installed on your desktop?

If Yes, then it could be possible that your system can be accessed by attackers to steal your personal details, including your bank and PayPal accounts, as several reports on Redd… Continue reading Has Your TeamViewer Account Been Hacked? Here’s What to Do Immediately

Threatpost News Wrap, June 13, 2016

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the back and forth around whether or not TeamViewer was hacked, the fallout around the years-old MySpace and Tumblr breaches, and a 90K Windows zero day.
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TeamViewer denies hack, as users claim computers remotely hijacked

TeamViewer users are claiming that their computers have been hijacked by malicious hackers, their PayPal and other banking accounts emptied, their webmail accessed, and malicious software installed.
What on earth is going on?
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TeamViewer Hacked? It Certainly Looks Like It

So is TeamViewer Hacked? There’s no definitive answer for now as they aren’t admitting to anything – but it does look very suspicious. The whole service was down for a few hours, the domains were apparently pointing to Chinese IP addresses (DNS Hijacking?) and no-one could login. A whole bunch of users also turned up […]

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Cyber crooks spread Surprise ransomware via TeamViewer

A new ransomware family has been encrypting users’ files and appending the .surprise extension to them. The malware itself doesn’t differ much from other similar families, but the crooks wielding it apparently use an unusual propagation method: the popular (and legal) remote control tool TeamViewer. First news of the so-called Surprise ransomware came up in a forum post on Bleeping Computer on March 9. As more users became victims, they provided the malware executable and … More Continue reading Cyber crooks spread Surprise ransomware via TeamViewer