TeamViewer users having bank and store accounts remotely controlled
Heads up, TeamViewer users. There's trouble in the air, and it's not quite clear where it's coming from. The software is making inroads into remote banking automation, though not in the form one would expect. Many users are reporting that their TeamViewer-enabled computers were broken into by unknown attackers, who proceeded to clean out PayPal accounts, order gift cards and items from online stores, and perform other equally helpful operations. The company has issued a statement indicating there was no security breach on its servers, and attributes the break-ins to poor password choices and a piece of Windows malware currently in the wild.
The TeamViewer software offers cross-platform remote control functionality. While the most common method for using it is on a single machine with a randomly-generated username and password, the service also allows users to have a site account to keep a collection of computers and optionally log ...