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A warning has been issued to Microsoft users detailing a cybersecurity flaw that allowed hackers to access its SharePoint servers, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced.
Microsoft has issued an alert about “active attacks” on server software used by government agencies and businesses to share documents within organizations and recommended security updates that customers should apply immediately.
Microsoft July 22 released an update on the ongoing cyberattacks to SharePoint servers used within organizations, attributing the incidents to China-based threat actors.
Microsoft has issued an urgent alert after hackers began exploiting a critical SharePoint Server flaw. The FBI and CISA are responding as agencies and businesses are targeted.
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Microsoft releases security update after hackers exploited SharePoint software to target U.S. users
Unknown attackers exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world.
Microsoft July 19 issued an alert about active attacks from vulnerabilities targeting SharePoint servers used within organizations.
A vulnerability in Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is under active review by threat intelligence researchers as some have found evidence that U.S. government systems have been exposed and potentially compromised.
Eye Security, a cybersecurity firm, says it "identified active large-scale exploitation" of the new vulnerability "being used in the wild" on SharePoint servers across the world and discovered "dozens of systems actively compromised," according to a blog post on the firm's website. The breaches "probably" began on the evening of July 18.
Microsoft is working to fix critical security vulnerabilities affecting on-premises SharePoint Servers that are already being exploited by attackers.
Chinese "threat actors" have hacked Microsoft's SharePoint document software servers and targeted the data of the businesses using it, the firm has said. China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have "exploited vulnerabilities" in on-premises SharePoint servers,