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Microsoft confirms Chinese hackers exploited a SharePoint flaw; Patches now available. Cloud-based Microsoft 365 not affected.
Department of Homeland Security headquarters, several of its agencies and the Department of Health and Human Services have been hacked as part of a wider breach of Microsoft SharePoint.
A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft's server software now involves the deployment of ransomware, Microsoft said in a late Wednesday blog post.
Multiple hacking groups—including state actors from China—have targeted a vulnerability in older, on-premises versions of the file-sharing tool after a flawed attempt to patch it.
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Threat actors exploit SharePoint flaws to access internal systems, steal sensitive data, and carry out surveillance, impersonation, and extortion.
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Microsoft is investigating whether a leak from its early alert system for cybersecurity companies allowed Chinese hackers to exploit flaws in its SharePoint service before they were patched, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
Victims of the recent global hacking campaign include the National Institutes of Health and the National Nuclear Security Administration, officials said.
New estimates regarding the recently-exploited Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities now evaluate that as many as 400 organizations may have been targeted.
A critical vulnerability in on-premise SharePoint servers allowed state-backed hackers to breach governments and institutions worldwide. Experts are questioning why more hasn’t been done or said. It’s not every day that U.
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Microsoft contained a major SharePoint security flaw, amid fresh questions about the future of its legacy on-premises software.
While organizations may have a variety of reasons for sticking with on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers, widespread attacks targeting the servers are grounds to “re-do their risk calculus” and newly explore cloud-based options,