
Don’t trust TrustConnect: This fake remote support tool only helps hackers
After breaking into a system, crooks often install legitimate remote admin tools to keep a foothold on the network — with the risk that the tool’s vendor spots them and locks them out. Now they have a new option: a fake remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, complete with serious-looking online storefront, built just for them. “TrustConnect,” the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) spotted by researchers at Proofpoint, has a website to promote it and all the support infrastructure necessary to manage compromised machines. A subscription to it is advertised at $300 per month. Proofpoint disrupted some of the malware’s infrastructure with help from intelligence partners, the company said in a bl...