Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint’
Top 5 Cybersecurity News
This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for October 9, 2026 has one thing in common: nobody needed a new exploit. A credential campaign against Fortinet firewalls now locks owners out of their own devices and feeds ransomware affiliates. An open-source AI tool probed South Korean banks through employee-facing systems. ASOS customers received their breach announcement…
Read MoreWarlock Ransomware SharePoint Attacks
Warlock ransomware SharePoint attacks have reached a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body and a university, according to Symantec and Carbon Black. The China-linked group still gets in through on-premises SharePoint, switches off endpoint protection on dozens of machines within about two hours, and then launches ransomware from a share that every…
Read MoreSwiss Federal SharePoint Breach Hits 200 Accounts
The Swiss federal SharePoint breach compromised roughly 200 accounts at Switzerland’s Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (BIT/FOITT), the agency confirmed in early August 2026. It is the first time DIESEC’s ongoing SharePoint vulnerability coverage has connected to a confirmed, named breach inside a DACH government body — not just a vendor advisory.…
Read MoreCVE-2026-50522 SharePoint RCE: Patching Isn’t Enough
CVE-2026-50522 SharePoint RCE is now the third actively exploited remote code execution flaw hitting Microsoft’s on-premises collaboration platform in three weeks — and this one lets attackers steal cryptographic machine keys that remain valid long after the server is patched. If you run SharePoint Server 2016, 2019, or Subscription Edition on-premises, patching is no longer…
Read MoreMicrosoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday Zero-Day Hits SharePoint
The Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday zero-day count is the largest disclosure on record — trackers put the total at 570 to 622 CVEs depending on methodology — and two of the fixed flaws were already being exploited before the patch shipped: one in Active Directory Federation Services, one in SharePoint Server. A separate, publicly…
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