#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...

Windows Defender Exploit Guard: Reduce the attack surface against next-generation malware

Windows Defender Exploit Guard is a new set of intrusion prevention capabilities that ships with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The four components of Windows Defender Exploit Guard are designed to lock down the device against a wide variety of attack vectors and block behaviors commonly us...

Making Microsoft Edge the most secure browser with Windows Defender Application Guard

Innovation in the attack space is constant as adversaries increase in both determination and sophistication. In response to increased investments in defense, attackers are adapting and improving tactics at breakneck speed. The good news is that defenders are also innovating and disrupting long...

Hardening the system and maintaining integrity with Windows Defender System Guard

One of the things we spend a great deal of time thinking about here at Microsoft is how attackers will attempt to persist and evade detection once they’ve successfully compromised a device. With Windows 10 we’ve made it more difficult to find ways to exploit potential entry points, and it’s clear...

Ukraine Police Warns of New NotPetya-Style Large Scale CyberAttack

Remember NotPetya? The Ransomware that shut down thousands of businesses, organisations and banks in Ukraine as well as different parts of Europe in June this year. Now, Ukrainian government authorities are once again warning its citizens to brace themselves for next wave of "large-scale"...

Windows Defender Antimalware/Antivirus Signature Definition Check

Windows Defender has an AntiMalware/AntiVirus signature that gets updated continuously. The signature definition has not been updated in more than 1 day. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid103569; scriptversion"1.13";...

Windows Defender Bypass Tricks OS into Running Malicious Code

Researchers have developed a method for bypassing Windows Defender that will allow any malware to execute on a Windows machine. Microsoft, meanwhile, has told the experts that it does not see this as a security issue and will not address the problem in its native antimalware protection. A request...

Announcing the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection ISO 27001 audit assessment report

The security and privacy of customer data are our top priority. Our goals are simple: to operate our services with the security and privacy you expect from Microsoft, and to give you accurate assurances about our security and privacy practices. In line with our commitment to provide customers the...

Defender Android App suffers from an override access vulnerability

Defender is a smart life control system that can effectively monitor and control smart hardware devices in your home. Smart hardware can be connected via Bluetooth or wifi, and you can see the operation of each hardware through your cell phone. Defender Android APP has an override access...

EMET II のさらに先へ - Windows Defender Exploit Guard

本記事は、Security Research & Defense のブログ "Moving Beyond EMET II – Windows Defender Exploit Guard" 2017 年 8 月 9 日 米国時間公開 を翻訳したもので...

Exploit for CVE-2017-8759 detected and neutralized

The September 12, 2017 security updates from Microsoft include the patch for a previously unknown vulnerability exploited through Microsoft Word as an entry vector. Customers using Microsoft advanced threat solutions were already protected against this threat. The vulnerability, classified as...

EMET は Windows 10 Defender Exploitation Guard へ統合されます

こんにちは、垣内ゆりかです。 本ブログでも、たびたび取り上げてきました 脆弱性緩和ツール Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET 。 EMET は...

Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Hosted in Amazon S3 Bucket

As Bitcoin’s price continues to soar beyond $4,000 USD per, cybercriminals are responding in kind by using techniques long reserved for adware, click-fraud and spying to now drop cryptocurrency miners onto compromised computers. The latest incident comes from a rash of drive-by downloads that are...

How to detect and guard based on the CVE-2017-0005 vulnerability of elevation of privileges attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, Foreword 2017 3 on 14 September, Microsoft published a security Bulletin MS17-013, fixes CVE-2017-0005 vulnerability. CVE-2017-0005 vulnerabilities in Windows Win32k Assembly, an attacker using this vulnerability could achieve elevation of Privilege. Partners according to credible reports, w...

Windows Defender ATP でステルス性の高いクロスプロセス インジェクション手法を検出する: プロセス ハロウイングと AtomBombing

本記事は、Microsoft Malware Protection Center のブログ “Detecting stealthier cross-process injection techniques with Windows Defender ATP: Process hollowing and atom bombing...

Akamai Is Named A Leader In Gartner's Magic Quadrant For Web Application Firewalls

"Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition" - H. Jackson Brown. A friend sent this quote to me after I explained to her my ambivalence about being recognized by Gartner as a "Leader" in their Web Application Firewall Magic Quadrant. I had mixed feelings because I wanted to...