Microsoft says Chinese hacking groups exploited SharePoint vulnerability in attacks

Microsoft connected Tuesday said Chinese hacking groups were portion of the caller attacks connected its SharePoint collaboration software.

As aboriginal arsenic July 7, the Chinese nation-state actors it calls Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon person been trying to exploit the vulnerability, arsenic has a China-based histrion called Storm-2603, Microsoft said successful a Tuesday blog post.

On Monday, Charles Carmakal, exertion main of the Google-owned Mandiant cybersecurity consulting group, said successful a LinkedIn post that "we measure that astatine slightest 1 of the actors liable for the aboriginal exploitation is simply a China-nexus menace actor."

On Sunday, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was "aware of active exploitation" of the vulnerability, and Microsoft rolled retired patches for 2 versions of its on-premises SharePoint releases. The bundle institution issued a hole for a 3rd mentation connected Monday.

SharePoint is simply a cardinal constituent of Microsoft's wide utilized Office productivity software, enabling galore radical wrong organizations to entree interior files.

Last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made cybersecurity a apical precedence aft a U.S. authorities study criticized the company's handling of China's breach of U.S. authorities officials' email accounts.

Last week, the institution said it would stop relying connected engineers based successful China to enactment the Pentagon's usage of unreality services, aft a media study suggested that the architecture could person led to China-sponsored attacks against the U.S. defence arm.

In 2021, attackers affiliated with the Chinese nation-state radical known arsenic Hafnium targeted a antithetic portion of Office software, Exchange Server, which provides message and calendar services.

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