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China-backed hackers used Microsoft flaw in attacks, defenders say

Hackers connected to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the widespread attacks in the past few days on organizations that use collaboration software from Microsoft, defenders working on the intrusions said in interviews.The breaches in the United States and other countries took advantage of a disastrous security flaw that drew attention this month, after Microsoft issued a patch that fixed only part of the problem in SharePoint, which is widely used to coordinate work on documen...

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