Microsoft says a China-aligned group used AI agents to rapidly exploit a breach at IT vendor ConnectWise, compromising thousands of downstream customers.
Microsoft has attributed a breach at IT management vendor ConnectWise to a China-aligned hacking group that used AI agents to accelerate attacks against thousands of its customers, TechCrunch reports.
The scale and speed of the intrusion underscore how AI agents are lowering the cost and raising the pace of supply-chain attacks against software vendors with broad customer bases.
Any vendor with deep access into customer systems is now a higher-value target because AI agents make exploitation faster and cheaper for attackers. Security and procurement leaders need to treat vendor risk assessments as an AI-era problem, not a legacy checklist exercise.
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