Microsoft SharePoint Hacking Has Hit More Than 400 Victims, Researchers Warn

A security company said it has found more than 400 systems that were ‘actively compromised during four confirmed waves of attack.’

A member of the Red Hacker Alliance who refused to give his real name uses a website that monitors global cyberattacks at its office in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

A major hacking campaign against Microsoft’s SharePoint server software has attacked more than 400 victims, according to researchers at Netherlands-based Eye Security.

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.”