Microsoft’s SharePoint Patch Failed To Stop Attacks
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More information has emerged on the ToolShell SharePoint zero-day attacks, including impact, victims, and threat actors.
The name was coined by Dinh Ho Anh, a researcher from Khoa of Viettel Cyber Security, who developed the exploit. The researcher said he picked the name because it exploited ToolPane.aspx, a component for assembling the side panel view in the SharePoint user interface.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in an alert, said it's aware of active exploitation of CVE-2025-53770, which enables unauthenticated access to SharePoint systems and arbitrary code execution over the network.
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