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A sweeping cyber espionage operation
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took aim at Microsoft's SharePoint
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servers and compromised about 100
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different organizations.
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That's according to two of the firms
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that helped uncover the attack. As of
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Monday, the victims had not been
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disclosed, but most of the entities were
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in the US and Germany and included
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government organizations. Microsoft on
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Saturday issued an alert about active
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attacks on its SharePoint servers which
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are widely used by companies to share
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documents and collaborate internally. In
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a statement, Microsoft said it had quote
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provided security updates and encourages
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customers to install them. One cyber
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security researcher said that so far the
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spying appeared to be the work of a
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single hacker or set of hackers. The
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pool of potential targets remains vast.
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According to data from Showdan, a search
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engine that helps to identify internet
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linked equipment, over 8,000 servers
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online may have already been compromised
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by hackers. Those servers include major
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industrial firms, banks, auditors,
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healthcare companies, and several US
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state level and international government
