India, July 25 -- Tech giant Microsoft has said Chinese hacking groups were believed to be behind the recent attacks on its SharePoint collaboration software.

In a blog post, Microsoft said: "As of this writing, Microsoft has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting these vulnerabilities targeting internet-facing SharePoint servers."

"With the rapid adoption of these exploits, Microsoft assesses with high confidence that threat actors will continue to integrate them into their attacks against unpatched on-premises SharePoint systems," the statement further said.

Alerting users, Microsoft recommended that customers use supported versions of on-premises SharePoint servers with the latest...