Microsoft assesses that the China-aligned actor Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to compromise the Microsoft 365 tenants of ConnectWise, then pivoted to its downstream customers. The campaign began in September 2026 and targeted hundreds of organizations worldwide across aerospace and defense, energy, fin…
A cyber-attack that began on October 11 against refrigeration controllers in French supermarkets is larger than first reported. It now appears to affect Dixell Electronics (a Copeland brand) temperature regulation devices as well as Danfoss controllers. CERT-FR named Danfoss AK-SC and AK-SM series, Dixell xweb and Copeland xweb as affecte…
Google warns that Armory Castle, a suspected PRC state-sponsored espionage actor, exploited the critical BeyondTrust Remote Support vulnerability CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) in August 2026, well before BeyondTrust disclosed it on October 15. The actor escalated privileges to root and established persistent access on compromised appliances.…
ConnectWise suspended Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick), SaaS Security and Cloud Management after unknown actors gained unauthorized access to its application identities and used them to sign in to customers' Microsoft 365 tenants. ConnectWise says it identified the incident on October 14, 2026 (thehackernews.com) and began mitigations on O…