Rank Math disclosed that copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid WordPress SEO plugin, downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16, 2026 contained malware. Any site that installed and activated an affected copy should be treated as compromised. The malware can recreate its hid…
ConnectWise took several cloud services offline, including Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick), SaaS Security and Cloud Management, after finding unauthorized access to application identities in the ConnectWise Cloud Backup environment. The company began investigating suspicious activity on October 15 and confirmed the unauthorized access by …
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 …
On 4 August 2026, an npm worm published 2,234 poisoned versions across 444 package names, using credentials from twelve organisations. Affected scopes include @ornikar, @deliveroo, @onereach, @or-sdk, @servicetitan, @qlik, @picsart, and the keyv and cacheable families. The keyv, flat-cache, file-entry-cache and cacheable-request packages …
ConnectWise disclosed on October 16 that on October 15 it detected unauthorized access to application identities in its Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) environment. It suspended Cloud Backup, plus the integrated SaaS Security and Cloud Management services, as a precaution. As of 16:00 UTC on October 18 the services were still down, so end…
Attackers used compromised application credentials from ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to access Microsoft 365 customer environments. Huntress researcher Jonathan Semon confirmed unauthorized sign-ins across 162 tenants as of 19:00 UTC on October 16. ConnectWise disabled application access, which interrupted backup services, …
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 shut down its Cloud Backup service (formerly SkyKick Cloud Backup) after an attacker gained unauthorized access to application identities and used them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. Huntress identified at least 162 compromised tenants in its environment, and Microsoft Threat Intelligence characterized the incident as an…
ConnectWise disabled seven application identities on October 17, 2026 after unknown threat actors gained unauthorized access to them and used them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. The company detected the issue on October 14 and has suspended Cloud Backup, SaaS Security and Cloud Management while it investigates. Huntress observed alm…
TeamUpdraft, developer of UpdraftPlus, detected unauthorized access to teamupdraft.com over the weekend of 17-18 October 2026 and believes the attacker accessed its customer database. The database held customer and billing details, order history, two-factor authentication settings, and connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault and …
On August 20, 2026, a compromised release of the Rust crate arrayref (0.3.10, about 245 million all-time downloads) appeared on crates.io. It added a dependency on the typosquatted crate proc-macro1 1.0.107, whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile time. The maintainer account droundy appears to have been compromis…
SafeDep identified a malicious tensorlake npm release, version 0.5.144 (about 106,000 monthly downloads), that ran a Mini Shai-Hulud worm on install. It was published at 01:12:07 UTC on 8 October and flagged by SafeDep eight minutes later. The attacker used a repository administrator account to commit the payload to main through the GitHu…
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…
On September 23, 2026, an attacker published malicious versions of @memtensor/memos-cloud-openclaw-plugin (npm, versions 0.1.21, 0.1.23 and 0.1.25 per the article) and the MemoryOS Python library (PyPI, 2.0.34). Both carry the same Go implant, sckit, which harvests credentials from the home directory, exfiltrates them to servers under sky…
The npm account dirtyblanket published nine typosquatted packages on September 29, 2026 in 33 minutes, eight copying Express and one copying React. On Linux, a preinstall hook fetches node.js through the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which pulls the worm linux.sh from Codeberg and runs it with bash. The worm installs CHAOS, an open-so…
An active supply chain attack is abusing a compromised credential for the ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) Microsoft 365 OAuth application, giving unknown actors access to customer tenants. Huntress confirmed unauthorized sign-ins in 173 partner/customer tenants, and Microsoft reports broad successful service principal authenti…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup covers three developments. The FBI arrested Edward Dubrovsky, a former CYPFER executive, on conspiracy and extortion charges. Kash Patel described him as a suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, though he has not been officially named as one. The FBI says the group breached more than 140 organizations an…
This weekly recap covers several concurrent incidents. ConnectWise disabled seven application identities and suspended Cloud Backup after unknown actors abused them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. China-nexus Armory Castle (UNC5221 / Warp Panda) exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support flaw CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) as a zero-day in lat…