Microsoft Malware Protection Engine on Windows Defender Multiple RCE Vulnerabilities (Dec 2017)

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Microsoft Issues Emergency Windows Security Update For A Critical Vulnerability

Microsoft has just released an emergency security patch to address a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability in its Malware Protection Engine MPE that could allow an attacker to take full control of a victim's PC. Enabled by default, Microsoft Malware Protection Engine offers the core...

CVE-2017-11937

The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender on Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, 1709 and Windows Server 2016, Windows Server, version 1709, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and 2016, does not properl...

CVE-2017-11937

The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender on Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, 1709 and Windows Server 2016, Windows Server, version 1709, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and 2016, does not properl...

Microsoft Windows Defender - Controlled Folder Bypass Through UNC Path Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1418 Windows Defender: Controlled Folder Bypass through UNC Path Platform: Windows 10 1709 + Antimalware client version 4.12.16299.15 Class: Security Feature Bypass Summary: You...

Microsoft Windows Defender - Controlled Folder Bypass Through UNC Path

Microsoft Windows Defender - Controlled Folder Bypass Through UNC Path / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1418 Windows Defender: Controlled Folder Bypass through UNC Path Platform: Windows 10 1709 + Antimalware client version 4.12.16299.15 Class: Security Feature...

Microsoft Windows Defender - Controlled Folder Bypass Through UNC Path

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1418 Windows Defender: Controlled Folder Bypass through UNC Path Platform: Windows 10 1709 + Antimalware client version 4.12.16299.15 Class: Security Feature Bypass Summary: You can bypass the controlled folder feature in Defende...

Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’

Scripts are becoming the weapon of choice of sophisticated activity groups responsible for targeted attacks as well as malware authors who indiscriminately deploy commodity threats. Scripting engines such as JavaScript, VBScript, and PowerShell offer tremendous benefits to attackers. They run...

Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’

Scripts are becoming the weapon of choice of sophisticated activity groups responsible for targeted attacks as well as malware authors who indiscriminately deploy commodity threats. Scripting engines such as JavaScript, VBScript, and PowerShell offer tremendous benefits to attackers. They run...

Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’

Scripts are becoming the weapon of choice of sophisticated activity groups responsible for targeted attacks as well as malware authors who indiscriminately deploy commodity threats. Scripting engines such as JavaScript, VBScript, and PowerShell offer tremendous benefits to attackers. They run...

Clarifying the behavior of mandatory ASLR

Last week, the CERT/CC published an advisory describing some unexpected behavior they observed when enabling system-wide mandatory Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR using Windows Defender Exploit Guard WDEG and EMET on Windows 8 and above. In this blog post, we will explain the configuratio...

Clarifying the behavior of mandatory ASLR

Last week, the CERT/CC published an advisory describing some unexpected behavior they observed when enabling system-wide mandatory Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR using Windows Defender Exploit Guard WDEG and EMET on Windows 8 and above. In this blog post, we will explain the configuratio...

Windows Defender System Guard でシステムのセキュリティを強化し整合性を維持する

本記事は、Windows Security のブログ “Hardening the system and maintaining integrity with Windows Defender System Guard” 2017 年 10 月 23 日 米国...

Windows 8 and later fail to properly randomize every application if system-wide mandatory ASLR is enabled via EMET or Windows Defender Exploit Guard

Overview Microsoft Windows 8 introduced a change in how system-wide mandatory ASLR is implemented. This change requires system-wide bottom-up ASLR to be enabled for mandatory ASLR to receive entropy. Tools that enable system-wide ASLR without also setting bottom-up ASLR will fail to properly...

#AVGater vulnerability does not affect Windows Defender Antivirus, MSE, or SCEP

On November 10, 2017, a vulnerability called AVGater was discovered affecting some antivirus products. The vulnerability requires a non-administrator-level account to perform a restore of a quarantined file. Windows Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft antimalware products, including System...

#AVGater vulnerability does not affect Windows Defender Antivirus, MSE, or SCEP

On November 10, 2017, a vulnerability called AVGater was discovered affecting some antivirus products. The vulnerability requires a non-administrator-level account to perform a restore of a quarantined file. Windows Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft antimalware products, including System...

Detecting reflective DLL loading with Windows Defender ATP

Today's attacks put emphasis on leaving little, if any, forensic evidence to maintain stealth and achieve persistence. Attackers use methods that allow exploits to stay resident within an exploited process or migrate to a long-lived process without ever creating or relying on a file on disk. In...

Detecting reflective DLL loading with Windows Defender ATP

Today's attacks put emphasis on leaving little, if any, forensic evidence to maintain stealth and achieve persistence. Attackers use methods that allow exploits to stay resident within an exploited process or migrate to a long-lived process without ever creating or relying on a file on disk. In...

Windows Defender Exploit Guard: 攻撃表面を縮小して次世代型マルウェアに対抗する

本記事は、Windows Security のブログ “Windows Defender Exploit Guard: Reduce the attack surface against next-generation malware” 2017 年 10 月 23 日 米国...

Maximize security insights by integrating threat intelligence data from Akamai with your SIEM

Since 2005, when Gartner coined the term, SIEM Security Information and Event Management solutions have grown in importance for the security industry. SIEM solutions provide a centralized view to easily access and analyze security information from multiple sources, and then prioritize mitigation...