Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation?
, with the help of outside cybersecurity investigators, it reckons Russia's Cozy Bear cyber-spies, aka APT29 and Midnight Blizzard, sneaked into its network using a worker's login. This confirms earlier whispering in the infosec industry that not only did a nation state crew slip into TeamViewer but that it was the infamous Cozy Bear.
"Based on continuous security monitoring, our teams identified suspicious behavior of this account and immediately put incident response measures into action. According to TeamViewer, its encounter with the Russians was limited to its non-production systems, which is the biz's way of asking people not to panic and assume the snoops will definitely be able to get into their PCs via TeamViewer.
This means we keep all servers, networks, and accounts strictly separate to help prevent unauthorized access and lateral movement between the different environments. This segregation is one of multiple layers of protection in our ‘defense in-depth’ approach.
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