Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR helps triage, investigate, and respond to cyberthreats

It has been an eventful time since the introduction of Microsoft Security Experts.1 We launched Defender Experts for Hunting, our first-party managed threat hunting service for customers who want Microsoft to help them proactively hunt threats across endpoints, Microsoft Office 365, cloud...

The vulnerability of Microsoft Defender operating systems for Windows, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of Microsoft Defender’s operating system vulnerabilities is related to synchronization errors when using a shared resource “Race Condition”. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to increase their privileges...

Microsoft Inspire: Partner resources to prepare for the future of security with AI

Cybersecurity is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. With an ever-changing threat landscape and siloed data across multiple security point solutions, defenders have limited visibility. It’s difficult to stay current and find cybersecurity professionals amid the global talent shortage...

Zero-day deploys remote code execution vulnerability via Word documents

An unpatched zero-day vulnerability is currently being abused in the wild, targeting those with an interest in Ukraine. Microsoft reports that CVE-2023-36884 is tied to reports of: …a series of remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting Windows and Office products. Microsoft is aware of...

Security Updates for Windows Defender (July 2023)

The Malware Protection Engine version of Microsoft Windows Defender installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 1.1.23050.3. It is, therefore, affected by an elevation of privilege vulnerability. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's...

CVE-2021-4425

The Defender Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the verifyotplogintime function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to verify a one time login...

CVE-2021-4425 Defender Security <= 2.4.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass

The Defender Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the verifyotplogintime function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to verify a one time login...

CVE-2021-4425 Defender Security <= 2.4.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass

The Defender Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.4.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the verifyotplogintime function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to verify a one time login...

CVE-2021-4425

CVE-2021-4425 affects the Defender Security plugin for WordPress. The vulnerability is a Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing or incorrect nonce validation in the verify_otp_login_time() function, across versions up to and including 2.4.6. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to verify a...

WordPress Plugin Defender Security 跨站请求伪造漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. WordPress is a blogging platform developed in the PHP language that supports personal blogs on PHP and MySQL servers.WordPress plugin is an application...

Patch Tuesday - July 2023

Microsoft is addressing 130 vulnerabilities this July Patch Tuesday, including five zero-day vulnerabilities, and eight further critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities. Overall, it’s safe to say that this is a busier Patch Tuesday than the past couple of months. Note that the total cou...

CVE-2023-33156

Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability...

CVE-2023-33156

Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability...

Privilege escalation

Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability...

Storm-0978 attacks reveal financial and espionage motives

Microsoft has identified a phishing campaign conducted by the threat actor tracked as Storm-0978 targeting defense and government entities in Europe and North America. The campaign involved the abuse of CVE-2023-36884, which included a remote code execution vulnerability exploited before disclosu...

Storm-0978 attacks reveal financial and espionage motives

Microsoft has identified a phishing campaign conducted by the threat actor tracked as Storm-0978 targeting defense and government entities in Europe and North America. The campaign involved the abuse of CVE-2023-36884, which included a remote code execution vulnerability exploited before disclosu...

CVE-2023-33156 Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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CVE-2023-33156

The connected Nessus entry details a local elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Defender’s Malware Protection Engine, affecting installations prior to version 1.1.23050.3. The CVE is CVE-2023-33156. If exploited, this could allow privilege elevation on affected Windows hosts. The rem...

CVE-2023-33156 Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Microsoft Entra expands into Security Service Edge and Azure AD becomes Microsoft Entra ID

A year ago when we announced the Microsoft Entra product family, we asked what the world could achieve if we had trust in every digital experience and interaction.1 This question inspired us to offer a vision for securing the millions and millions of connections that happen every second between...