Microsoft ties ConnectWise backup abuse to Storm-0940 and ARTEX
Sign-in attempts hit 2,900 a minute, with more than 111,000 failures on October 11 alone.
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Sign-in attempts hit 2,900 a minute, with more than 111,000 failures on October 11 alone.

Microsoft says AI agents drove nearly 3,000 sign-in attempts a minute against about 2,250 organizations.

The supplied SOCRadar page is site navigation and does not describe what was accessed or who was affected.

Huntress saw vendor-credential sign-ins from 144.172.64.128, then Global Administrator grants and new secrets on two tenants.

Seven application identities were disabled October 17; Huntress says a later wave against 16 tenants failed.

Hackers abused ConnectWise Cloud Backup identities to access at least 162 Microsoft 365 tenants.

Stolen ConnectWise Cloud Backup credentials accessed 162 Microsoft 365 tenants, forcing ConnectWise to halt backups.
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