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…
An unauthorized party used a compromised login credential to access a file transfer (SFTP) site belonging to Educational Testing Service (ETS) and copy files containing California public school student data, according to the California Department of Education (CDE). ETS supports the state's CAASPP and ELPAC assessment programs. Access occ…
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 …
An attacker pushed forged commits to the default branches of two unrelated GitHub projects, hugo-paper and mevn-cli. The commits add a preinstall hook (scripts/preinstall.js) that downloads and silently runs a second-stage script from buildwithknexus.xyz during npm install or bun install. The commits copy the author, date and message of t…
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…
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…