- TEAMVIEWER OLD VERSION SECURITY UPDATES INSTALL
- TEAMVIEWER OLD VERSION SECURITY UPDATES UPDATE
- TEAMVIEWER OLD VERSION SECURITY UPDATES PC
The next day, March 12, 2017, the attackers moved laterally onto a second computer, again targeting an unattended computer outside of work hours (4 AM local time). How attackers tried to get into the 1st computer On the third try, the attackers succeeded to drop the payload, using VBScript, the scripting language developed by Microsoft.
TEAMVIEWER OLD VERSION SECURITY UPDATES INSTALL
The attackers tried to install two malicious dlls, however, the attempts were unsuccessful due to lack of admin rights to the system.
TEAMVIEWER OLD VERSION SECURITY UPDATES PC
While we don’t know how the attackers got their hands on the credentials, we can only speculate that the threat actors used credentials the Piriform workstation user utilized for another service, which may have been leaked, to access the TeamViewer account.Īccording to the log files, TeamViewer was accessed at 5 AM local time, when the PC was unattended, but running. They successfully gained access with a single sign-in, which means they knew the login credentials. To initiate the CCleaner attack, the threat actors first accessed Piriform’s network on March 11, 2017, four months before Avast acquired the company, using TeamViewer on a developer workstation to infiltrate. CCleaner attack: How the threat actors got into the Piriform network Our investigation revealed that ShadowPad had been previously used in South Korea, and in Russia, where attackers intruded a computer, observing a money transfer. As we looked for similarities with other attacks, we also analyzed older versions of ShadowPad, the cyber attack platform we had found on four Piriform computers.
TEAMVIEWER OLD VERSION SECURITY UPDATES UPDATE
Since the update we gave at SAS last month, we have made further discoveries about how the attackers infiltrated the Piriform network and the tactics they used to fly under the radar. Thereafter, our threat intelligence team has been investigating what happened. The modified installation file was downloaded by 2.27 million CCleaner customers worldwide. Last September, we disclosed that CCleaner had been targeted by cybercriminals, in order to distribute malware via the CCleaner installation file. Today, I shared new findings from Avast’s continued investigations of the CCleaner APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) at RSA. Unrelated to the CCleaner attack, Avast also found ShadowPad samples active in South Korea and Russia, logging a financial transaction
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