Chinese Hackers Breach Nuclear Agency, Global Systems Via Microsoft Flaws

Chinese Hackers Breach Nuclear Agency, Global Systems Via Microsoft Flaws

Sophisticated State-Sponsored Groups Exploit SharePoint Vulnerabilities, Compromising U.S. Government and International Organizations Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups have exploited critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft software to infiltrate sensitive systems worldwide, including those of the U.S. government agency responsible for overseeing the nation’s nuclear weapons, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Microsoft alerted its customers …

SharePoint Exploit Emerges as Root of Global Cyber Threat

A global cybersecurity crisis has been triggered by a newly discovered and unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server, prompting the Governments of the United States, Canada, and Australia to conduct urgent investigations. In what experts are calling a coordinated… Read more → The post SharePoint Exploit Emerges as Root of Global Cyber Threat appeared first on IT Security News.

Microsoft probing if Chinese hackers learned SharePoint flaws through alert, Bloomberg News reports

Microsoft is investigating whether a leak from its early alert system for cybersecurity companies allowed Chinese hackers to exploit flaws in its SharePoint service before they were patched, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. A security patch Microsoft released this month failed to fully fix a…

Chinese hackers gain access to US oversight of nuclear weapons in widespread Microsoft hack: report

The tech giant blamed a vulnerability in its SharePoint document software Anthony Cuthbertson,Rhian Lubin, Wednesday 23 July 2025, https://www.the-independent.com/tech/security/china-hack-nuclear-microsoft-sharepoint-b2795333.html Chinese hackers gained access to the U.S. government agency that oversees nuclear weapons in a widespread Microsoft hack. Microsoft issued an alert Tuesday warning that hackers affiliated with the Chinese government ha…

Did a Vendor's Leak Help Attackers Exploit Microsoft's SharePoint Servers?

The vulnerability-watching "Zero Day Initiative" was started in 2005 as a division of 3Com, then acquired in 2015 by cybersecurity company Trend Micro, according to Wikipedia. But the Register reports today that the initiative's head of threat awareness is now concerned about the source for that exploit of Microsoft's Sharepoint servers: How did the attackers, who include Chinese government spies, data thieves, and ransomware operators, know how…