{
  "id": 6141539,
  "title": "Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Four-Stage VBScript Chain to Newly Connected Hosts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/rogue-screenconnect-clients-spread-four-stage-vbscript-chain-to-newly",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-07T11:36:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/rogue-screenconnect-clients-spread-four.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}