Microsoft, Ransomware and SharePoint
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Blame a leak for Microsoft SharePoint attacks, researcher insistsMAPP program to blame? A week after Microsoft told the world that its July software updates didn't fully fix a couple of bugs, which allowed miscreants to take over on-premises SharePoint servers and remotely execute code,
New estimates regarding the recently-exploited Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities now evaluate that as many as 400 organizations may have been targeted.
Several entities in South Africa have been compromised by hackers who exploited a security vulnerability in Microsoft's (MSFT) SharePoint servers, according to Eye Security.
Two of the crews behind the zero-day attacks are government-backed: Linen Typhoon (aka Emissary Panda, APT27) and Violet Typhoon (aka Zirconium, Judgment Panda, APT31), Microsoft's threat intel team wrote in a Tuesday blog.