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Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise
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Microsoft says a China state-aligned hacker breached ConnectWise's cloud backup service and stole application credentials that link ConnectWise to its corporate customers. The hacker used these credentials to log in to customers' Microsoft-hosted environments and access emails and files. Microsoft reports around 2,250 organizations were hit at almost 3,000 attempted sign-ins per minute, using ARTEX, an open source AI framework.
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