Microsoft, Ransomware and SharePoint
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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.
Department of Homeland Security headquarters, several of its agencies and the Department of Health and Human Services have been hacked as part of a wider breach of Microsoft SharePoint.
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.