TeamViewer Denies All Accusations of Recent Ransomware Infections

Axel Schmidt, Public Relations Manager At TeamViewer informed of several reports which connected some ransomware attacks with TeamViewer. He stressed that none of the described instances relies upon a TeamViewer security breach.

TeamViewer team looked extensively at the incidents that were recorded. Based on its analysis, the underlying security problems may not be assigned to TeamViewer. There is no proof which could demonstrate any possible security breach of TeamViewer that attackers take advantage of.

Moreover, a man-in-the-middle attack can not be used mainly because of TeamViewer’s integrated end-to-end encryption. No brute-force attacks could possibly be the source of the revealed issues. TeamViewer substantially maximizes the latency between connection attempts. It thus |requires around 17 hours for 24 attempts. The latency will only be reset after correctly typing the proper password.

TeamViewer not simply has a functional mechanism in its place safeguard its clients from attacks from one particular PC but additionally from several different computers, referred to as Botnet attacks, that are attempting to connect to a single TeamViewer-ID.

Negligent use is at the bottom of the infection instances revealed. This especially incorporates} the utilization of the same password across various user accounts with different vendors.

Since TeamViewer is a greatly spread software, a great number of online crooks make an effort to log on with the data of compromised accounts of other software tools acquired by means of the previously mentioned techniques, to find out if there is a matching TeamViewer account with similar credentials. Should this be the case, they might gain access to all linked tools in an effort to install malware or ransomware.