Posts Tagged ‘third-party risk’
Top 5 Cybersecurity News
This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for November 6, 2026 follows five routine acts that turned into the way in. A fake job interview got an engineer to run a code test on a Binance work laptop, and about $6.3 billion followed. Stored backup credentials gave a ransomware affiliate a school estate, in an attack…
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This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for October 30, 2026 is about assumptions nobody re-checked. A Japanese hosted-desktop service held customers’ saved trading logins on servers attackers could reach, after its own staff had flagged weaknesses. A VMware ESXi flaw scored 2.7 on the CVSS scale was used as a zero-day to keep administrator actions…
Read MoreConnectWise Cloud Backup Incident and Microsoft 365
In mid-October, Huntress and Microsoft reported that attackers had abused a compromised vendor-side credential associated with ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to sign in to customers’ Microsoft 365 tenants. ConnectWise confirmed unauthorized access to its Cloud Backup application identities and took containment measures. Many managed service providers (MSPs) use Cloud Backup to copy their clients’…
Read MoreCyber Dependencies and Attack Surface: ENISA 2026
The ENISA Threat Landscape 2026, published on 22 September, has a message that gets less attention than the usual list of threats: organisations are increasingly exposed through their cyber dependencies, meaning the technologies, suppliers and services they rely on. For German businesses, that means cyber risk no longer sits only in internal networks and endpoints.…
Read MoreFrench Supermarket Fridge Cyberattack Hits Danfoss
Attackers took control of refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets overnight on October 11 to 12 and forced them to heat up, and this French supermarket fridge cyberattack left several chains throwing away stock. Les Mousquetaires, which owns Intermarché, said its fridges and freezers were put into defrost and heated to as much as…
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