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Global – October 17, 2026 -- Coalition Incident Response (CIR) has documented rival Business Email Compromise (BEC) attackers using the names of inbox rules as a chat channel inside the same compromised mailbox, and says the exchanges expose gaps in default email platform security.

Two intruders negotiate and fight through rule names

Abusing inbox rules to evade detection (MITRE ATT&CK T1564.008) is a widespread tactic. Attackers use it to hide, redirect or forward emails containing keywords such as "invoice" or "confidential." In one CIR investigation, an attacker aware of a second intruder appeared willing to cooperate so that neither ruined the payout. In another incident, two actors fought over an inbox in a prolonged argument recorded as a sequence of rule names.

Texas – October 17, 2026 -- Third Wave Innovations, a Texas-based managed security service provider (MSSP), has eliminated dedicated Level 1 analyst triage from its core business after adopting Wirespeed Automated Detection and Response (ADR). The platform now filters background noise so the team receives only one or two meaningful items per week.

Legacy SIEM and XDR stack capped the MSSP's growth

Third Wave, which has served small and midsized businesses for nearly a decade, hit an operational ceiling while planning to expand its managed security offerings. Its heavy security information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR) architecture was complex and dependent on correlation. Analysts spent billable hours working through high-volume, low-context alerts and chasing minor events regardless of actual risk.

Global – October 17, 2026 -- Coalition says its Wirespeed platform cuts alert noise by 99.99% before any alert reaches a customer queue, replacing analyst-driven managed detection and response (MDR) with automated verdicts and containment in milliseconds.

Coalition acquired Wirespeed to address a bottleneck it attributes to legacy MDR: human analyst capacity. Adding headcount widens the alert queue and raises prices for customers without speeding up response, the company argues. Forrester Research recognized Coalition in its report The Managed Detection And Response Services Landscape, Q3 2026.

Global – October 17, 2026 -- ConnectWise is investigating attempted unauthorized access to its Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 service, formerly SkyKick Cloud Backup, after disclosing the incident on October 16. The company says containment measures are in place and it has no indication that partner backup data was accessed. The investigation is ongoing.

Community reports allege attacker used the backup app's Entra credentials

Separate reports in the MSP community describe an attacker using the backup service's Microsoft Entra application to enter customer tenants and exfiltrate email, SharePoint and Teams data. ConnectWise has not confirmed these reports.

ConnectWise published indicators tied to the suspicious authentication activity: source IP 144.172.64.128 and the user agents Python-urllib/3.12 and python-requests/2.31. The company notes that their presence alone does not confirm compromise.