![]() The outage was caused by a denial-of-service attack (DoS) aimed at the TeamViewer DNS-Server infrastructure. “TeamViewer experienced a service outage on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. ![]() Shortly after the outage, TeamViewer issued a statement about the attack and unauthorized connections: It should also be noted that earlier in the day an unknown user had posted TeamViewer’s DNS information on pastebin. Most of the attention drawn to TeamViewer came on June 1st at around 1pm EST when TeamViewer sustained a 3-hour long denial of service attack aimed at their DNS infrastructure. These reports of drained PayPal accounts and stolen credentials have mainly been found on Reddit, but have also been seen on a number of other sites dating back to May 1, 2016. TeamViewer also uses end-to-end encryption to prevent a number of different potential attack vectors such as Man in The Middle (MITM) and brute-force attacks. TeamViewer is a software package used by both personal and enterprise users for remote control, desktop sharing, file transfers and more. Over the last month there have been numerous TeamViewer users reporting unauthorized access into their computers that resulted in financial loss and stolen credentials.
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