(Reuters) – German software company Teamviewer said on Friday it was the victim of a cyberattack earlier this week and accused Russian hacker group APT29 of being behind the attack.
The group, also known as “Cozy Bear” or Midnight Blizzard, is accused by Western intelligence of acting on behalf of Russia’s foreign spy agency.
In March, Alphabet’s Mandiant cyber unit said it caught the hacking group trying to trick “top German political figures” into opening a phishing email.
The German software company, which specializes in cloud-based technologies, said in a statement that the group gained access to its corporate IT environment but not its product environment or customer data on Wednesday.
The company’s shares were down 10% at 11:52 GMT, on track for worst day since November 2023
(Reporting by Paolo Laudani and Alexander Huebner; Editing by Miranda Murray)
