Hackers believed to be associated with China have leveraged the ToolShell vulnerability (CVE-2025-53770) in Microsoft SharePoint in attacks targeting government agencies, universities, ...

Threat actors with ties to China exploited the ToolShell security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to breach a telecommunications company in the Middle East after it was publicly disclosed and ...

Microsoft is launching a range of AI agents to save workers time in its Teams, SharePoint and Viva Engage apps. Microsoft has added a “facilitator” agent to Teams to provide AI assistance during ...

Microsoft this week released a public‑preview of its collaborative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing a suite of "always‑on" agents grounded in context for channels, meetings, SharePoint sites, ...

JSON Prompting is a technique for structuring instructions to AI models using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format, making prompts clear, explicit, and machine-readable. Unlike traditional ...

Microsoft used an engineering team based in China to support SharePoint before its vulnerabilities were patched. The application was exploited by at least three state-sponsored Chinese threat groups ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Last month, Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored ...

Everyone’s talking about JSON prompting like it’s the next big thing in AI. Look, here’s the deal. Just like every other “revolutionary” AI technique that gets hyped up, JSON prompting isn’t the only ...

Hundreds of organizations around the world suffered data breaches this week, as an array of hackers rushed to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in older versions of the Microsoft ...

Microsoft Corp. accused Chinese state-sponsored hackers of using flaws in its SharePoint document management software in a hacking campaign that has targeted businesses and government agencies around ...

(This story has been updated to reflect that on Monday afternoon, Microsoft published emergency security updates for the impacted versions of SharePoint.) Agencies had to scramble over the weekend and ...