Windows Defender Firewall: Inbound connections

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winadvsecprofileinboundcon.nasl 10010 2018-05-29 14:43:35Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender Firewall: Inbound connections Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Adding transparency and context into industry AV test results

Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson recently shared his insights on how Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP evolved to achieve important quality milestones. Our Windows Defender ATP team is committed to delivering industry-leading protection, customer choice, and...

Windows Packer Project for Defenders: DARKSURGEON

Darksurgeon is a Windows packer project to empower incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense. Darksurgeon has three stated goals: Accelerate incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense with a preconfigured Windows 10 environment...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Turn off Windows Defender Antivirus

This policy setting turns off Windows Defender Antivirus. If you enable this policy setting, Windows Defender Antivirus does not run, and computers are not scanned for malware or other potentially unwanted software. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, by default Windows Defend...

CVE-2018-5174

In the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Windows Defender SmartScreen honors the "SEEMASKFLAGNOUI" flag associated with downloaded files and will not show any UI. Files that are unknown and potentially dangerous will be allowed to run because SmartScreen will not prompt the user for a decision, and i...

Securing the modern workplace with Microsoft 365 threat protection – part 3

This post is authored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Security. Detecting ransomware in the modern workplace Over the last two weeks, we have shared with you the roots of Microsoft 365 threat protection and how Microsoft 365 threat protect helps protect the modern...

Teaming up in the war on tech support scams

Editors note: Erik Wahlstrom spoke about the far-reaching impact of tech support scams and the need for industry-wide cooperation in his RSA Conference 2018 talk Tech Scams: Its Time to Release the Hounds. Social engineering attacks like tech support scams are so common because theyre so effectiv...

Introducing Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation

At Microsoft, we want users to be in control of their devices, including knowing the security health of these devices. If important security features should fail, users should be aware. Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation, a new Windows platform security technology, fills this need...

Microsoft Windows Defender - mpengine.dll Memory Corruption Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Windows Defender inspects a variety of different archive formats, among others RAR. Inspection of mpengine.dll revealed that the code responsible for processing RAR archives appears to be a forked and modified version of the original unrar code;...

Microsoft Windows Defender - mpengine.dll Memory Corruption

Microsoft Windows Defender - mpengine.dll Memory Corruption Windows Defender inspects a variety of different archive formats, among others RAR. Inspection of mpengine.dll revealed that the code responsible for processing RAR archives appears to be a forked and modified version of the original unr...

Microsoft Windows Defender - 'mpengine.dll' Memory Corruption

Windows Defender inspects a variety of different archive formats, among others RAR. Inspection of mpengine.dll revealed that the code responsible for processing RAR archives appears to be a forked and modified version of the original unrar code; given that it still processes the VMSFUPCASE filter...

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...

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...

Remote code execution

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...

CVE-2018-0986

CVE-2018-0986 (Microsoft Malware Protection Engine RCE) arises when the engine fails to properly scan a specially crafted file, causing memory corruption. This enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code with Local System privileges on affected systems, potentially taking control. Affected prod...

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...

Hunting down Dofoil with Windows Defender ATP

Dofoil is a sophisticated threat that attempted to install coin miner malware on hundreds of thousands of computers in March, 2018. In previous blog posts we detailed how behavior monitoring and machine learning in Windows Defender AV protected customers from a massive Dofoil outbreak that we...

Microsoft Malware Protection Engine < 1.1.14700.5 RCE

The version of Microsoft Malware Protection Engine MMPE installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 1.1.14700.5. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability which could allow an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the...

Microsoft Malware Protection Engine on Windows Defender RCE Vulnerability (Apr 2018)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Security Updates released for Microsoft Malware Protection Engine dated 03-04-2018 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

KLA11217 ACE vulnerability in Windows Defender

An ACE vulnerability was found in Windows Defender. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed file or possible via a specially designed website. Original advisories CVE-2018-0986 CVE-2018-0986...