Reseaerchers Suspect China Microsoft Email Hackers Had Access To Other Files The Washington Post Bloomberg’s caroline hyde and ed ludlow discuss the latest update in the microsoft sharepoint hacking. plus, openai and oracle announce plans to expand us data center capacity. (reuters) 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.
Thousands Of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims Of Hack Tied To China The New York Times Two chinese nation state actors and one china based threat actor have tried to exploit the vulnerability for weeks, microsoft said. Security researchers at google and microsoft say they have evidence that hackers backed by china are exploiting a zero day bug in microsoft sharepoint, as companies around the world. As of this writing, microsoft has observed two named chinese nation state actors, linen typhoon and violet typhoon exploiting these vulnerabilities targeting internet facing sharepoint servers. Despite rolling out a fix, microsoft is warning that at least three china based hacking groups are exploiting the vulnerability to access internal sharepoint servers run by customers.
Chinese Hackers Breached Government Email Accounts Microsoft Says The New York Times As of this writing, microsoft has observed two named chinese nation state actors, linen typhoon and violet typhoon exploiting these vulnerabilities targeting internet facing sharepoint servers. Despite rolling out a fix, microsoft is warning that at least three china based hacking groups are exploiting the vulnerability to access internal sharepoint servers run by customers. Microsoft has accused chinese state sponsored groups of orchestrating the attacks, which target a zero day flaw (cve 2025 53770) in on premises sharepoint servers. the attackers are. Microsoft has formally tied the exploitation of security flaws in internet facing sharepoint server instances to two chinese hacking groups called linen typhoon and violet typhoon as early as july 7, 2025, corroborating earlier reports. the tech giant said it also observed a third china based threat actor, which it tracks as storm 2603, weaponizing the flaws as well to obtain initial access to. A cyberespionage campaign exploiting the recently revealed microsoft sharepoint issue has targeted roughly 100 organizations, compromising server software and primarily hitting government. Initially, authorities suspected that the attack may have been coordinated by a single perpetrator or a lone acting cybercrime syndicate, but microsoft has now revealed that three chinese hacking groups are behind the attack.
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