Microsoft SharePoint Hacking Has Hit More Than 400 Victims, Researchers Warn
In an update issued on July 23, Eye Security said that 'before this vulnerability was widely known last Friday, our team scanned over 23,000 SharePoint servers worldwide' and in all, the company found more than 400 systems that were 'actively compromised during four confirmed waves of attack.'
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