This vendor blog post from Huntress describes a new integration between the Huntress platform and AlgaPSA, the professional services automation (PSA) product from Nine Minds. Nine Minds built it in a few days using only the public Huntress API documentation. When the Huntress SOC publishes an incident report, it is created as a ticket on …
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…
Huntress researchers identified a fake page impersonating the WatchGuard download portal that harvested VPN server addresses, usernames and passwords before offering the legitimate Mobile VPN with SSL installer. The investigation began after suspicious activity involving an administrator at a managed service provider (MSP), who found the …
Huntress analyzed an active credential-phishing campaign in which the lookalike domain watchguard-vpn.net harvests WatchGuard SSL VPN credentials. On October 7, 2026, an administrator at a managed service provider searched Bing for "watchguard vpn sll download" and clicked through to the fake page, which Huntress classifies as SEO poisoni…
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 …
Huntress researchers detailed an SEO-poisoning campaign on 13 October that harvests SSL VPN credentials through a lookalike WatchGuard download page, watchguard-vpn.net, and then delivers the legitimate, validly signed Mobile VPN with SSL installer. Earlier waves used trojanised installers, but this iteration contains no malware, so endpo…
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 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…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reports that a suspected advanced actor tracked as CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820) deployed a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 implant, PEERSTITCH, on Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. The group exploited the FortiOS path traversal flaw CVE-2025-61624 for the final stage. The intrusion hit a telecommunications …
ConnectWise suspended its Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) service and took SaaS Security and Cloud Management offline after unknown attackers obtained unauthorized access to seven of its application identities. The company detected the incident on October 14, disabled the compromised identities on October 17, and is still investigating ho…
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…
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…
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…