Nikkei Inc., the Japanese media group that owns The Nikkei and the Financial Times, disclosed a breach of a cloud service used for system development. On October 7, attackers used previously stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access. As of October 16, about 1.83 million items of personal information had leaked. The company reported t…
Japanese media group Nikkei (publisher of The Nikkei and the Financial Times) disclosed a data breach affecting about 1.83 million records held in a cloud service used for system development. On the morning of October 7, attackers used previously compromised credentials to access the service. About 1.68 million records held only non-ident…
ConnectWise has disabled its cloud backup offering amid concern for downstream managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers. Researchers say attackers authenticated into Microsoft 365 tenants using ConnectWise credentials. ConnectWise says customer impact remains unconfirmed. The available article text is limited to the headline a…
TrustedSec published Part 1 of a red-team tradecraft series on what to do after finding plaintext AWS access keys during an engagement. It is educational content, not a report of a specific incident. It explains the difference between long-term AKIA keys (IAM user) and temporary ASIA keys (STS-issued, which also need a session token and a…
A threat actor obtained a highly sensitive API secret for ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) and used it to sign in to customers' Microsoft 365 tenants, forcing ConnectWise to suspend its Cloud Backup, SaaS Security and Cloud Management services. Huntress saw sign-in activity from the malicious infrastructure across almost 1,000 …
FortiGuard Labs describes an LLMjacking incident in which an AWS account was compromised through a leaked, long-lived IAM access key with AdministratorAccess permissions. The operator subscribed to one or more foundation models through AWS Marketplace and invoked them through Amazon Bedrock, generating inference charges against the victim…
ConnectWise suspended its Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick), SaaS Security and Cloud Management services on October 17-18 after attackers abused a compromised application credential to access customers' Microsoft 365 tenants. Huntress saw the Cloud Backup identity sign in to 162 M365 tenants between October 15 and 16. By October 17 it had f…
ConnectWise said it is still responding to a security incident involving unauthorized access to application identities tied to Cloud Backup. The incident was identified on October 14, 2026, and mitigations began rolling out on October 17. The company has disabled the affected application connections, suspended Cloud Backup, and suspended …
Unit 42 Threat Intelligence published its overview of the top five initial access threat vectors observed in September 2026. Adversary activity relied heavily on external edge exploitation and identity compromise, with public-facing infrastructure and legitimate credential abuse as the primary footholds for intrusion campaigns. Social eng…
Huntress reports that a stolen vendor credential for ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) was used on October 15, 2026 to obtain Microsoft Graph tokens in customer Microsoft 365 tenants from the hosting IP 144.172.64.128. As of 19:00 UTC on October 16, Huntress had confirmed unauthorized sign-ins in 162 tenants. Later updates found…