Microsoft Put Older Versions of SharePoint on Life Support. Hackers Are Taking Advantage

Hundreds This week was the victim of data violations in the world, an array of hackers rushed to exploit the recently discovered weakness Microsoft The file-divided equipment is known as the sharepoint. The string of violation already adds to the urgent and complex dynamic: long -time sharepoint users can face more risk by continuing the service, just as Microsoft is removing support for a platform for new cloud offers.

Microsoft D Tuesday, as well as other actors, it has seen more than one China Hacking groups use errors, especially in older versions of the sharepoint that is self-host by companies. It does not affect the new, cloud-based version of the sharepoint that Microsoft has been encouraging customers to accept for many years. Bloomberg is first Report One of the victims on Wednesday is the United States National Nuclear Protection Administration, which monitors and maintains US nuclear weapons.

“On-Primices” or self-managed sharepoint servers are a popular goal for hackers, as companies often set up them that they are published on the open Internet and then they forget or do not want to allocate the budget for their replacement. Even if the fixes are available, the owner can neglect to apply them. Although this is not with the bug that spread the waves of this week’s attacks. Although it is related to the previous sharepoint weakness discovered in the PWN2 Un2 Un2in Hacking Competition in May in Berlin, Microsoft’s patch that published this month was itself DefectiveMoney was even caught by the companies that have persuaded their protection. Microsoft screwed for a fix for fix this week, or the company called “more powerful protection” in it Security warningThe

A spokesman for Microsoft said, “In Microsoft, our promise is to meet the avarid customers where they are in a protected future initiative,” said a Microsoft spokesperson in an email statement. “This means supporting companies throughout the complete spectrum of the cloud, including operating systems on-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-admission.”

Microsoft still supports SharePoint server version 2016 and 2019 with security updates and other fixes, however Both will arrive Microsoft says “end end” on July 14, 2026. As a result, all sharepoint server versions are increasingly part of a digital backwater where the facility of continuing the software comes with significant risk and potential exposure for users – especially when the sharepoint servers are open on the Internet.

“A few years ago, Microsoft has identified the sharepoint as a more secure replacement for the old school Windows file-sharing equipment, so this is why companies like government agencies have invested these servers. And now they are not only running at any extra expense, a Microsoft 365 Subspision said, Jac Subspision, said a long time. “So Microsoft tries to nurture holdouts by chargeing Microsoft enhanced support but if you are releasing a sharepoint server on the Internet, I will emphasize that you need to budget for the incident because that server will finally pop.”