Microsoft Confirms Chinese Cyber Espionage Assault on SharePoint: Proof We’re Already in a Digital Cold War

Three Chinese Threat Actors Named in SharePoint Breach While most Americans were distracted by stock market noise and election drama, Microsoft quietly dropped a digital bombshell: three Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups—Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and Storm-2603—have been exploiting serious vulnerabilities in SharePoint, the document-sharing platform used by businesses, universities, hospitals, and government agencies across the West. According to Microsoft’s own Security Response Center, these cyber mercenaries have been targeting on-premises SharePoint servers through spoofing and remote code execution—techie jargon for “we walked through the front door while you were fumbling with your keys.” The disclosure, first made public in a July 19 blog post and updated just this week, confirms what many in the cybersecurity community have warned: China isn’t…