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Comment by gruez | Hacker News Reader

Not everyone affected is going to post on reddit. There are plenty of tech-iliterate victims who don't even know something is wrong.

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I'm aware. But even tens of thousands of affected people wouldn't qualify as "an extremely wide spread malware".

If you spin up an exploit pack and can't get 50k hits in a day you're clueless and should consider a career outside of cybercrime.

To expand on this further, most (i.e. not all) of the reddit reports are meaningless as on any given day there's going to be tens of thousands of examples of this kind of fraud.

Unless the reporters have some specific evidence that teamviewer is at fault, it's overwhelmingly likely that many of them were hit by some totally unrelated fraud.

Well it's related to Teamviewer for sure, because it shows up in the people's Teamviewer connection logs. Yeah it could be other malware that is stealing the Teamviewer credentials from their computer. But that seems like more work than necessary, because only a few percent of people have teamviewer installed and running, and they could attack everyone by having them malware install their own remote access service.

This person formatted the drive a week ago and only had a few things installed. https://www.reddit.com/r/teamviewer/comments/4jr9qn/hacked_t...

It may well be a legitimate hack of TV but from a very small pool of thieves.

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