Why Incident Response Demand Will Grow Faster than Expected
2026-10-20T20:51:31Z•b475aab2cd9478c81c28c0643dfc8a747cf9f365b6e44d2b0d37c62af990a44e
AI securityBRONZE SANDCASTLEChina-based threat actorConnectWise Cloud BackupDLL sideloadingMeterpreterMicrosoft Entra IDMicrosoft GraphOAuth application abuseServiceNow enumerationcross-tenant token abuseidentity reconnaissanceidentity threat detectionincident responsethreat intelligence
What happened
Sophos news covering emerging threat activity and defensive developments, including BRONZE SANDCASTLE deploying modified Meterpreter shells via DLL sideloading, abuse of the ConnectWise Cloud Backup Entra application for cross-tenant Microsoft Graph token access, and identity reconnaissance involving Graph and ServiceNow. Additional articles discuss incident-response demand, AI security, governance, and identity threat detection.
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