But to be fair, we can't blame the TeamViewer developers for a misuse and a distribution of infected TeamViewer software distributed by suspect third party actors.
Also I've reported about a misuse of hacked TeamViewer versions in cyber attacks. In the blog post at that time I linked some information about Permira and also asked 'how trustable can this vendor be, if they are not transparent in financial affairs'. The buyer was the British private equity company Permira, which took over the GmbH in an exit for a purchase price of 1.1 billion US $ (800 million Euro), without announcing that in public. But this company was silently acquired by a private equity fund – I had reported about it in the German blog post TeamViewer: 'Stille' Übernahme durch Private Equity–Fonds. And I don't like the quote unicorn, but I need to confess, TeamViewer is a success story. Well, after 14 years a company is no longer a startup (in my view). German news magazine Der Spiegel (article here behind Paywall) quotes the TeamViewer company as one of the most important 'unicorns' and startups from Germany. The developers are the German TeamViewer GmbH from Göppingen (a small German town near Stuttgart), which was founded in 2005. The software is now said to be installed on 2 billion devices worldwide. According to the company, more than 200 million users (many companies) used this software for web conferences and remote maintenance as early as 2014.
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Quite easy to use and very functional – even free for private users.
Many of you know the TeamViewer – a remote maintenance software. “TeamViewer is appalled by any criminal activity however, the source of the problem, according to our research, is careless use, not a potential security breach on TeamViewer’s side,” the statement read.Some preliminary remarks about TeamViewer Against this backdrop, we decided not to disclose the incident publicly in the interest of the global fight against cybercrime and thus also in the interest of our users.”įurther, TeamViewer also clarified that the hacking is no way related to another hacking event that took place in May 2016 when the users claimed that hackers emptied their bank accounts by exploiting a flaw in the software.īack then, the company issued a press release clarifying the incident that neither TeamViewer was hacked nor was there a security hole. “Together with the relevant authorities and our security advisors, we came to the joint conclusion that informing our users was not necessary and would have been counterproductive to the effective prosecution of the attackers. “Out of an abundance of caution, TeamViewer conducted a comprehensive audit of its security architecture and IT infrastructure subsequently and further strengthened it with appropriate measures.
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An expert team of internal and external cyber security researchers, working together closely with the responsible authorities, successfully fended off the attack and with all available means of IT forensics found no evidence that customer data or other sensitive information had been stolen, that customer computer systems had been infected or that the TeamViewer source code had been manipulated, stolen or misused in any other way. Our systems detected the suspicious activities in time to prevent any major damage. “In autumn 2016, TeamViewer was target of a cyber-attack. For this reason, we continuously invest in the advancement of our IT security and cooperate closely with globally renowned institutions in this field,” TeamViewer said in a statement. “Like many technology leaders, TeamViewer is frequently confronted with attacks by cybercriminals. However, the company said that TeamViewer chose not to publish a security breach notification to notify the users of the incident at the time, as their systems had detected the suspicious activities “in time” to “prevent any major damage.”
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