{"id":948856,"date":"2025-07-23T07:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948856"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:02:39","slug":"microsoft-knew-of-sharepoint-server-exploit-but-failed-to-effectively-patch-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/23\/microsoft-knew-of-sharepoint-server-exploit-but-failed-to-effectively-patch-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft knew of SharePoint server exploit but failed to effectively patch it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: A security patch released by Microsoft last month failed to fully fix a critical flaw in U.S. tech giant&#8217;s SharePoint server software that had been identified in May, opening the door to a sweeping global cyber espionage operation. <\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear who is behind the ongoing operation, which targeted around 100 organisations over the weekend. But Alphabet&#8217;s Google, which has visibility into wide swathes of internet traffic, said it tied at least some of the hacks to a &#8220;China-nexus threat actor&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: A security patch released by Microsoft last month failed to fully fix a critical flaw in U.S. tech giant&#8217;s SharePoint server software that had been identified in May, opening the door to a sweeping global cyber espionage operation. It remains unclear who is behind the ongoing operation, which targeted around 100 organisations over the weekend. But Alphabet&#8217;s Google, which has visibility into wide swathes of internet traffic, said it tied at least some of the hacks to a &#8220;China-nexus threat actor&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}