A major zero-day security vulnerability in Microsoft’s widely used SharePoint server software has been exploited by hackers, causing chaos within businesses and government agencies, multiple outlets have reported. Microsoft announced that it had released a new security patch “to mitigate active attacks targeting on-premises [and not online] servers,” but the breach has already effected universities, energy companies, federal and state agencies and telecommunications firms.
The SharePoint flaw is a serious one, allowing hackers to access file systems and internal configurations or even execute code, to completely
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