AnyDesk hacked: Remote access software confirms incident

AnyDesk confirms production systems breach with a crappy late Friday advisory

"We can confirm that the situation is under control" is not the world's greatest incident response report we've seen.

AnyDesk, a remote access software company based in Germany with 170,000 customers globally, including Comcast and Thales, has confirmed its production systems were compromised in a security incident.

The company had left customers sweating for three days after client logins failed and it notified them of unplanned maintenance. A changelog showed it invalidated a previous code signing certificate on January 29.

That suggests its previous code signing certificate was compromised.

Now in a late Friday, February 2 security advisory, AnyDesk said: “Following indications of an incident on some of our systems we conducted a security audit and found evidence of compromised production systems. We immediately activated a remediation and response plan involving cyber security experts…”

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