Screenconnect

An active cryptojacking campaign uses SEO poisoning, AI chatbot interactions, and ScreenConnect abuse to target high-performance PCs, aiming to maximize GPU mining yield and establish persistent remote access for potential data theft or ransomware attacks.

A phishing campaign impersonates Zoom to trick users into downloading and installing ConnectWise ScreenConnect, a legitimate remote monitoring and management tool, allowing attackers to gain persistent remote access, harvest credentials, and deploy secondary malware such as ransomware.

ScreenConnect version 26.1 has a vulnerability related to the insufficient protection of server-level cryptographic material, potentially allowing unauthorized access and data compromise.

This rule identifies suspicious child processes spawned by ScreenConnect client processes, potentially indicating unauthorized access and command execution abusing ScreenConnect remote access software to perform malicious activities such as data exfiltration or establishing persistence.