Microsoft issued an emergency fix to close off a vulnerability in its SharePoint software that hackers have exploited to carry out widespread attacks on businesses and at least some federal agencies.

Over 100 organizations were hacked via a SharePoint flaw. Governments and businesses targeted in a major Microsoft server breach.

Hackers exploited a security flaw in common Microsoft Corp software to breach governments, businesses and other organisations across the globe and steal sensitive information, according to officials and cybersecurity researchers.

A series of cyber intrusions targeting Microsoft’s SharePoint platform has triggered alarm across global businesses and government agencies, drawing renewed scrutiny of enterprise cyber risk frameworks and raising the stakes for insurers underwriting coverage in a landscape increasingly defined by state-linked digital espionage.

A critical flaw in a major Microsoft document storage tool is hitting the organizations least able to defend themselves, security researchers and incident responders tell Axios. Why it matters: Schools,

Microsoft is racing to contain a critical security flaw in its SharePoint collaboration software that has already been exploited by threat actors to infiltrate thousands of organisations globally. The vulnerability,