Crooks use your PC to hide their IP, funnel Web traffic
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May 26, 2016 21:20 GMT · By Cosmin Anton BackDoor.TeamViewer.49 is the name of a backdoor trojan discovered by Russian security vendor Dr.Web, who claims the trojan will install the TeamViewer application on infected computers, so it can relay Web traffic from the crook to other servers on the Internet, effectively using the host as a proxy server.
Dr.Web security researchers, together with security experts from Yandex, first discovered the trojan at the start of May, distributed via a complex multi-stage mechanism.
Initial infection occurs via a tainted Adobe Flash update package
Users don't get infected with BackDoor.TeamViewer directly, but first through a malware dropper called Trojan.MulDrop6.39120, which Dr.Web says it's distributed online together with an Adobe Flash Player update package.
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