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AnyDesk says hackers breached its production servers, resets passwords (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/cybersecurity

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"We can confirm that the situation is under control and it is safe to use AnyDesk."

Yeah, nah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Any other recommendations aside from TeamViewer? AnyDesk has been getting worse with each update. Can’t even use a free account to have a dedicated hostname anymore…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

An open source option is RustDesk

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk

https://rustdesk.com

I use it, I like it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The owners are sketchy and they have closed source pro features (which was expected to be honest). They also don't like criticism and ban accounts on reddit for questioning some of their practices (like why has a vulnerability PR not been merged for more than a year). I should know, they banned me from their subreddit for asking this and deleted my comment. I later found out that this was common practice with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Isn't that run by some dodgy chinese firm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I really like ScreenConnect.

[–] spaghettiwestern 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

At least Anydesk didn't take Teamviewer's approach and deny the breach for 3 years while blaming their customers for the problem, but it's time to rethink using these remote access apps.

In the past year for personal use I've moved to VNC and Nomachine server apps that are inaccessible from the Internet without first activating a Wireguard tunnel. The tunnel ports don't even appear to be open when scanned. Hopefully this setup offers more security than relying on a company to make sure their systems are up to date.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't mean their systems are not up to date, it just means that a security hole has been discovered. Hopefully, it's patched now.

My biggest concern is them having the source.

[–] spaghettiwestern 1 points 10 months ago

Doesn’t mean their systems are not up to date...

IMO we will never know. Every company has a vested interest in hiding the cause of a breach if it makes them look bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yay... :(