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SEO-Poisoned Software Sites Abuse ScreenConnect to Deploy AsyncRAT

The Hacker News Cybersecurity Score 9/10

Summary

Unknown threat actors are leveraging the ScreenConnect remote access tool as a way to deploy and execute AsyncRAT. Kaspersky said the activity is part of a "massive, multi-domain, multi-language" campaign that distributes malicious installer archives hosted on spoofed websites. These installers masquerade as popular software like OBS Studio, DNS Jumper, DS4Windows, and Bandicam, among others.

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