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World Monuments Fund (WMF) released key insights from a study on Wednesday (30 September) revealing that insufficient public funding continues to surpass climate hazards as the primary threat to heritage sites around the world. The research was conducted as part of the non-profit organisation’s nomination process for its 2027 World Monuments Watch list, which will be announced in February. WMF has been publishing the list since 1996 to address funding gaps in cultural preservation. This year, the number of nominations has almost doubled since the previous cycle. Of 372 nominations for the 2027 Watch list, 65% of nominators cited funding shortages and economic development as a primary challenge, up from 55% in 2024. Bénédicte de Montlaur, the director of WMF, says funding is no longer flowing from public coffers, as governments worldwide face pressures from inflation, war, climate-related disasters and competing public needs. “We are seeing governments, particularly in Europe and the US (which have been some of the most supportive of heritage preservation), reducing or stopping national and international funding for public resources,” De Montlaur tells The Art Newspaper.

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A supply-chain attack involving ConnectWise’s cloud services has exposed Microsoft 365 customers to unauthorized application access, with researchers reporting successful sign-ins across 173 partner and customer tenants. The incident centres on credentials associated with ConnectWise Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick, and raises concerns about attackers exploiting permissions already entrusted to business software. ConnectWise has confirmed unauthorized access to application identities within its Cloud Backup environment. In an October 17 update on its service-status page, the company said it was shutting off application access, interrupting customer backups while investigation and remediation continued.