As of the weekend, a broad cyberespionage effort targeting Microsoft server software had infiltrated around 100 different organizations, according to a researcher who assisted in exposing the scheme on Monday. Microsoft warned on Saturday of “active attacks” against self-managed SharePoint servers, which are frequently used by corporations and government organizations for internal document sharing.
The hacks are known as “zero day” attacks because they take use of a previously unknown digital vulnerability that enables spies to infiltrate systems and maybe open a back door to get ongoing access to victim organizations.
According to Vaisha Bernard, the chief hacker at Eye Security, a cybersecurity company based in the Netherlands that learned about the hacking campaign targeting one of its clients on Friday, an internet scan conducted with the ShadowServer Foundation had found almost 100 victims in total — and that was before the hacking technique was well known.
It’s unambiguous,” mentioned Bernard. “Who knows what any additional enemies have done to set up further back doors since then? He stated that the appropriate national authorities had been informed, but he would not name the impacted organizations.
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