Microsoft painted the cyber assaults as "highly sophisticated" that used a multitude of techniques, including breaching remote access services and exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched VPN appliances as well as Exchange Server and SharePoint systems to "insert hard-to-detect malware that facilitates intrusion, surveillance and data theft."
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