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Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chain attack to China-state aligned threat group

·Source: CyberScoop

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Executive Summary

Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework to automate attacks and “reach more than 2,250 tenants at 2,900 sign-in attempts per minute,” Microsoft researchers said. The post Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chain attack to China-state aligned threat group appeared first on CyberScoop .

Analysis

Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework to automate attacks and “reach more than 2,250 tenants at 2,900 sign-in attempts per minute,” Microsoft researchers said. The post Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chain attack to China-state aligned threat group appeared first on CyberScoop .
Source Attribution

Originally published by CyberScoop on Oct 21, 2026.

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