A man looks at his phone as he passes by the Microsoft stand at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, on March 3, 2025. Bruna Casas/Reuters
Eye Security, a Netherlands-based cybersecurity company that has been tracking Microsoft SharePoint attack victims, says an analysis of victims shows that nearly a third were government sector systems.
“From the data, it’s clear this wasn’t a random or opportunistic campaign. The attackers knew exactly what they were looking for,” Lodi Hensen, Eye Security vice president of security operations, said on July 29 in a blog post.
