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Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Four-Stage VBScript Chain to Newly Connected Hosts

📅 7 September 2026 at 11:36 UTC📰 The Hacker NewsView original source ↗
Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Four-Stage VBScript Chain to Newly Connected Hosts

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of worm-like activity that abuses ConnectWise ScreenConnect to distribute a malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) payload to newly connected systems. According to Huntress, three unrelated incidents have been found to use diverse initial access methods, namely a Quick Assist tech-support scam, a phishing-delivered MSI installer, and a fake

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