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Microsoft July 22 released an update on the ongoing cyberattacks to SharePoint servers used within organizations, attributing the incidents to China-based threat actors.
Hackers exploited a major security flaw in widely used Microsoft server software to launch a global attack on government agencies and businesses.
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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.
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 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.