AI agents accelerate cloud breaches through trusted software
Daily Cyber News: AI agents accelerate cloud breaches through trusted software
Some cloud intrusions attributed to China-aligned Storm-0940 moved from initial targeting to privileged access in less than three hours. The group used the ARTEX AI penetration-testing framework along with stolen ConnectWise Cloud Backup credentials to target Microsoft 365 environments. Activity reached two thousand nine hundred sign-in attempts per minute, although most of the targeting was unsuccessful.
Key context: The important issue is how valid application credentials changed the attack.
Additional detail: For leaders, incident-response timelines based on human attacker speed may no longer be fast enough.
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