Cybersecurity firm Huntress has uncovered a wave of malicious installations of ScreenConnect, a widely used remote-support tool, that spread between machines without any further action from a victim or an attacker, a self-propagating attack chain researchers likened to a computer worm. In a blog post published this week, Huntress said its Security Operations Center (SOC) The post Hijacked ScreenConnect Installs Are Spreading Malware Like a Worm, Huntress Warns appeared first on IT Security Guru.
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