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Fake WatchGuard VPN website steals administrator credentials while delivering legitimate software
Attackers collected VPN server addresses, usernames, and passwords
The fraudulent website rejected initial submissions to collect credentials a second time

A fraudulent WatchGuard download website stole VPN login details while supplying the authentic installation package, experts have claimed.

Security investigators at Huntress traced the activity to a lookalike domain that collected connection details before downloading the legitimate client.

The investigation began after suspicious activity involving an administrator working for a managed service provider was detected.

Fake download pages harvest user credentials

Investigators found that the user had searched Bing for a WatchGuard VPN download before visiting a deceptive website designed to resemble the vendor's official download pages.

The website, watchguard-vpn[.]net, offered a purported mobile VPN with SSL download and displayed a form requesting the server address, username, and password.

Those details matched information required by the genuine VPNclient,...

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