Beyond ‘Fake Updates’: From Application Store-Themed Phishing to Large-Scale Distribution of ScreenConnect
The LevelBlue OpsCTI Team recently identified a large-scale phishing campaign leveraging a new social engineering method to deploy unauthorized ConnectWise ScreenConnect clients. Rather than relying on conventional phishing pages, the campaign recreates convincing software update and installation alerts by impersonating the Microsoft Store and Apple App Store while reproducing the look and behavior of trusted applications through dynamic modal dialogs and other interactive web elements. The campaign impersonates trusted software and services, including Google Meet, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Docusign, Secure Access Manager, Blue Mountain, Paperless Post, and other popular applications.
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