Variant of Paradise Ransomware Targets Office IQY Files

A new variant of the Paradise ransomware attacks rarely-targeted Microsoft Office Excel IQY files, providing a new and relatively inobtrusive way to infiltrate and hijack an organization’s network, researchers have found. Lastline Labs’ James Haughom discovered the variant in December in a spam...

Variant of Paradise Ransomware Targets Office IQY Files

A new variant of the Paradise ransomware attacks rarely-targeted Microsoft Office Excel IQY files, providing a new and relatively inobtrusive way to infiltrate and hijack an organization’s network, researchers have found. Lastline Labs’ James Haughom discovered the variant in December in a spam...

Windows Defender Security Center Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Defender Security Center handles certain objects in memory. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted command that could exploit the vulnerability t...

Windows Defender Security Center Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Defender Security Center handles certain objects in memory. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted command that could exploit the vulnerability t...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2018-0986

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine does not properly scan a specially crafted file, leading to memory corruption, aka "Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This affects Windows Defender, Windows Intune...

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...

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...

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...

The vulnerability of Microsoft Windows Defender operating system allows attackers to trigger false alerts and incorrect Windows Defender service responses.

The vulnerability of Microsoft Windows Defender operating system is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to trigger false alerts and incorrect responses by Windows Defender services...

Windows Defender Antivirus 4.18.1908.7-0 File Extension Spoofing Vulnerability

David Haintz ======================================================================= title: File Extension Spoofing product: Windows Defender Antivirus vulnerable version: 4.18.1908.7-0 fixed version: Virus Definition Update of 2019/09/30 CVE number: - impact: High homepage:...

SYS.1.2.2.A1

Ziel des Bausteins SYS.1.2.2 ist die Absicherung von Microsoft Windows Server 2012 und Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. Die Basis-Anforderung Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

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...

Windows Defender Antivirus 4.18.1908.7-0 File Extension Spoofing

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: File Extension Spoofing product: Windows Defender Antivirus vulnerable version: 4.18.1908.7-0 fixed version: Virus Definition Update of 2019/09/30 CVE number: - impact:...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4530684)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4530684 Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This progra...

CVE-2019-1488

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Microsoft Defender improperly handles specific buffers, aka 'Microsoft Defender Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability'...

CVE-2019-1488

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Microsoft Defender improperly handles specific buffers, aka 'Microsoft Defender Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability'...

Security feature bypass

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Microsoft Defender improperly handles specific buffers, aka 'Microsoft Defender Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability'...

CVE-2019-1488

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Microsoft Defender improperly handles specific buffers, aka 'Microsoft Defender Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability'...