ConnectWise Security Bulletin - ConnectWise Control Phishing Issue

07/02/2020
Products: ScreenConnect

Vulnerability Details:

CVSS Score: N/A

Description:

Phishing emails purporting to be ConnectWise Control have been sent to some partners in an attempt to spoof the Control login page and harvest user credentials.

Remediation:

This issue and a corresponding takedown request have been raised with Google who is the hosting provider for the fake url.

Workarounds and Mitigations:

Please validate the URL of any email received from a ConnectWise sender. Please do not click on any unknown links. Please report to your own internal IT/Security team if you have accessed a link similar to this and/or provided credentials.
The attached pictures below highlight what the phishing attempt looks like.

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So far, we have verified three fake urls that are the originating domain for the phishing mails but want to stress that there could be additional yet unreported:

ivkpkt.connectwises.org

74gb.connectwises.org

g0vd.connectwises.org

The phishing email link if clicked will take the user to the following fake url:

cloud.screenconnecte.com/#/