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Stopping Active Directory attacks and other post-exploitation behavior with AMSI and machine learning
When attackers successfully breach a target network, their typical next step is to perform reconnaissance of the network, elevate their privileges, and move laterally to reach specific machines or spread as widely as possible. For these activities, attackers often probe the affected network’s...
How to detect and mitigate phishing risks with Microsoft and Terranova Security
Detect, assess, and remediate phishing risks across your organization A successful phishing attack requires just one person to take the bait. That’s why so many organizations fall victim to these cyber threats. To reduce this human risk, you need a combination of smart technology and people-centr...
Microsoft Guidance for Addressing Security Feature Bypass in GRUB
Executive Summary Microsoft is aware of a vulnerability in the GRand Unified Boot Loader GRUB, commonly used by Linux. This vulnerability, known as “There’s a Hole in the Boot”, could allow for Secure Boot bypass. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to have administrative...
Seeing the big picture: Deep learning-based fusion of behavior signals for threat detection
The application of deep learning and other machine learning methods to threat detection on endpoints, email and docs, apps, and identities drives a significant piece of the coordinated defense delivered by Microsoft Threat Protection. Within each domain as well as across domains, machine learning...
Microsoft continues to extend security for all with mobile protection for Android
Just a year ago, we shared our first steps on a journey to enable our customers to protect endpoints running a variety of platforms with our announcement of Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac. Knowing that each of our customers have unique environments and unique needs and are looking for more...
UEFI scanner brings Microsoft Defender ATP protection to a new level
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Microsoft Defender ATP is extending its protection capabilities to the firmware level with a new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI scanner. Hardware and firmware-level attacks have continued to rise in recent years, as modern security solutio...
atpmotor.cz Cross Site Scripting vulnerability
Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1183963 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website...
How to gain 24/7 detection and response coverage with Microsoft Defender ATP
This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligence Security Association guest blog series. To learn more about MISA, go...
Microsoft Defender ATP can help you secure your remote workforce
As the number of home-based workers has accelerated in the last few weeks, it’s introduced new challenges. You may want to expand the number and types of devices employees can use to access company resources. You need to support a surge in SaaS usage. And it’s important to adjust security policie...
The vulnerability of the weblogin.cgi component in NAS (Network Attached Storage) storage systems and micro-programming software for Ethernet interfaces of UTM, ATP, and VPN devices allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerability of the weblogin.cgi component in NAS Network Attached Storage storage systems and microprogramming software for Ethernet interfaces of UTM, ATP, and VPN devices is related to errors during the verification of the username parameter. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicio...
Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2020 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave
I’m proud to announce that Microsoft is positioned as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Detection and Response, Q1 2020. Among the Leaders in the report, Microsoft received the highest score in the current offering category. Microsoft also received the highest score of all participating...
Trend Micro Cloud App Security Blocked 12.7 Million High-Risk Email Threats in 2019 – in addition to those detected by cloud email services’ built-in security
On March 3, 2020, the cyber division of Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI issued a private industry notification calling out Business Email Compromise BEC scams through exploitation of cloud-based email services. Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite, the two largest cloud-based email service...
Zyxel 0day Affects its Firewall Products, Too
On Monday, networking hardware maker Zyxel released security updates to plug a critical security hole in its network attached storage NAS devices that is being actively exploited by crooks who specialize in deploying ransomware. Today, Zyxel acknowledged the same flaw is present in many of its...
MISA expands with new members and new product additions
Another RSA Conference RSAC and another big year for the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA. MISA was launched at RSAC 2018 with 26 members and a year later we had doubled in size to 53 members. Today, I am excited to share that the association has again doubled in size to 102 member...
Microsoft Brings Defender Antivirus for Linux, Coming Soon for Android and iOS
Almost within a year after releasing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection ATP for macOS computers, Microsoft today announced a public preview of its antivirus software for various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS and Debian. If this news hasn't gotten you excited yet...
New Microsoft Security innovations and partnerships
Today on the Official Microsoft Blog, Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President of the Cybersecurity Solutions Group, shared how Microsoft is helping turn the tide in cybersecurity by putting artificial intelligence AI in the hands of defenders. She announced the general availability of Microsoft...
Threat hunting in Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
As members of Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team DART, we’ve seen a significant increase in adversaries “living off the land” and using compromised account credentials for malicious purposes. From an investigation standpoint, tracking adversaries using this method is quite difficult as you...
Mobile threat defense and intelligence are a core part of cyber defense
The modern workplace is a mobile workplace. Today’s organizations rely on mobility to increase productivity and improve the customer experience. But the proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices has also expanded the attack surface of roughly 5 billion mobile devices in the world, man...
Multi-stage downloader Trojan sLoad abuses BITS almost exclusively for malicious activities
Many of today’s threats evolve to incorporate as many living-off-the-land techniques as possible into the attack chain. The PowerShell-based downloader Trojan known as sLoad, however, puts all its bets on BITS. Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS is a component of the Windows operating...
The quiet evolution of phishing
The battle against phishing is a silent one: every day, Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection detects millions of distinct malicious URLs and email attachments. Every year, billions of phishing emails don’t ever reach mailboxes—real-world attacks foiled in real-time. Heuristics, detonation, and...