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If it's not through the browser, it's through a plugin like LastPass which they never log out of. That's not even the icing on the cake - everyone and their mom saves their credentials in chrome/mozilla/internet exploder. Users on reddit are reporting that a utility (by the good old nirsoft I believe) "webbrowserpassview.exe" gets uploaded via TeamViewers file upload feature and then run to see what other accounts and passwords you've got! How convenient. S0 now that I've probably got your TeamViewer information, what do I do? Try and log in and remotely control your PC of course. The lack of exposure is a plus too - less chance of getting caught. No sweat off my back, and little work to be done. With Billy and Suzie using passwords such as "password" or "123456" how can we expect them to be using different passwords for everything else? If from the LinkedIn or MySpace dump I can fairly easily grab a password that you've been known to use, I can probably safely assume it's the same one as your TeamViewer account. That means 1 beer, and an episode of Marvels Agents of Shield, and some luck for one measly account. Security analysts cracked the original LinkedIn dump (164 million accounts) in 17 hours. So anyway - I'd look for the dump that contained the person that I was targeting, find their encrypted password - hope it's MD5 or SHA1, and crack it. ![]() Yep - over 3 times the population of the United States of America. If I wanted to gain access to someones account, as a hacker - where do I start? The same damn place everyone else starts, the simple solution! Over the years security #fails have allowed breaches that total to nearly a billion leaked credentials.Ī Billion? Wait, that's like. ![]() We've been warning people about weak passwords for like. It's 2016, and the "consumer" internet has been around for well over a decade. The most common passwords around are literally password, and 123456. Looking through the hundreds of posts where users are reporting they fell victim - a huge majority of them have their TeamViewer usernames listed in recent dumps such as the LinkedIn one. Here's the thing though - this "issue" with TeamViewer accounts being accessed - users have reported this to have been happening for at least 26 days. Yes, this happened, and TeamViewer restored their DNS servers globally within a few hours. Essentially a group denial of serviced their DNS servers causing clients to be unable to connect, and cause service outages. The DNS DDoS happened on Wednesday June 1st. The "hivemind" is sometimes like a bunch of seagulls - squawk squawk squak! Let's look at the facts. password.)īut but but TeamViewer's DNS was hacked and and and that's what happened, someone broke into their servers and did something to either steal data or redirect the clients to an unauthorized update server. While TeamViewer has handled this very poorly, one thing is crystal clear: they are definitely standing their ground stating that the root of the problem is each accounts security, and users poor security habits (ie. ![]() ![]() (s ee here) This is true, however do I believe the TeamViewer was breached and data was stolen? No! Was TeamViewer hacked? It has been reported that many users TeamViewer accounts have been compromised.
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