Microsoft Put Older Versions of SharePoint on Life Support. Hackers Are Taking Advantage
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Summary
Within the space of a few days, hundreds of organisations around the world have suffered data breaches after an array of hackers rushed to exploit a recently-discovered vulnerability in older versions of Microsoft’s file-sharing tool, SharePoint.
Such self-managed SharePoint servers are a popular target for hackers as organisations often set them up so that they are exposed on the open internet and then either forget about them or lack the budget to replace them.
The latest bug, which relates to a previous SharePoint vulnerability discovered at the Pwn2Own hacking competition in Berlin in May, has impacted even those companies that acted to fix the initial problem.
Microsoft has now scrambled to issue a fresh fix, but both present and future versions of SharePoint are increasingly part of a backwater where the convenience of continued use comes with significant risks.
