South African Microsoft SharePoint servers targeted in attack

[Daniel Puchert]

South Africa targeted in Microsoft software attack

Microsoft warned that Chinese state-sponsored hackers are among those exploiting flaws in its SharePoint software to break into institutions globally, with the US agency responsible for designing nuclear weapons now among those breached.

In a blog post, the tech giant identified two groups supported by the Chinese government, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, as leveraging flaws in the document-sharing software that rendered customers who run it on their own networks, as opposed to in the cloud, vulnerable.

 

[Skerminkel]

“What makes this especially concerning is SharePoint’s deep integration with Microsoft’s platform, including their services like Office, Teams, OneDrive and Outlook, which has all the information valuable to an attacker,” he said.

Is the unholy mess of legacy code and cloud systems built up over the last 2(?) decades the main cause of this and a disaster waiting to happen?

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Hmm smells like a marketing exercise

Especially pointing out those who run their own networks instead of cloud

 

[Skerminkel]

Hmm smells like a marketing exercise

Especially pointing out those who run their own networks instead of cloud

Surely M$ makes more money from organisations hosting their own servers?

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Surely M$ makes more money from organisations hosting their own servers?

 

[OCP]

Surely M$ makes more money from organisations hosting their own servers?

Surely M$ would prefer organizations to store their data in the cloud where it can be used to train AI ;-)
(yeah yeah - MS promising they won't/don't means nothing to me - trust them as much as a dachshund watching a hamster)

 

[Lawnchairman]

The Chinese at it again.