How artificial intelligence stopped an Emotet outbreak

At 12:46 a.m. local time on February 3, a Windows 7 Pro customer in North Carolina became the first would-be victim of a new malware attack campaign for Trojan:Win32/Emotet. In the next 30 minutes, the campaign tried to attack over a thousand potential victims, all of whom were instantly and...

How artificial intelligence stopped an Emotet outbreak

At 12:46 a.m. local time on February 3, a Windows 7 Pro customer in North Carolina became the first would-be victim of a new malware attack campaign for Trojan:Win32/Emotet. In the next 30 minutes, the campaign tried to attack over a thousand potential victims, all of whom were instantly and...

February 13, 2018—KB4074591 (OS Build 10586.1417)

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Unfiltered Endpoint Data: Tilting The Advantage Back To The Defenders

Mike Viscuso founded Carbon Black following a 10-year career in offensive security for the NSA and CIA. Carbon Black was Mike’s first time on the defensive side of cybersecurity. He came to the job with more than just a mastery of the tools and techniques used by attackers; Mike brought a state o...

Override Access Vulnerability in Tianrongxin Network Management System

TIANRONGXIN Network Defender Network Management System is a comprehensive network management system that realizes comprehensive management of network devices, servers, links, security devices, power supply, server room environment, and terminal PCs. The Tianrongxin Network Defender Network...

Windows Defender Application Control の紹介

本記事は、Windows Security のブログ “Introducing Windows Defender Application Control” 2017 年 10 月 23 日 米国時間...

Windows Defender ATP の機械学習と Antimalware Scan Interface: スクリプトを悪用した「環境寄生型」攻撃の検出

本記事は、Microsoft Secure のブログ “Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’”...

January 17, 2018—KB4057144 (OS Build 15063.877)

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Microsoft offers several mechanisms to protect against ransomware

The start of a new year is the perfect time to reassess your security strategy and tactics especially when looking back at the new levels of ransomwares reach and damage in 2017. Its no secret that ransomware attacks are increasing. In fact, a business is hit with ransomware every 40 seconds. If...

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection の機械学習: 未知の侵入アクティビティの検出

本記事は、Windows Security のブログ “Windows Defender ATP machine learning: Detecting new and unusual breach activity” 2017 年 8 月 3 日 米...

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection で反射型の DLL 読み込みを検出

本記事は、Windows Security のブログ “Detecting reflective DLL loading with Windows Defender ATP” 2017 年 11 月 13 日 米国時間公開...

Crooks Switch from Ransomware to Cryptocurrency Mining

Criminals behind the VenusLocker ransomware have switched to cryptocurrency mining in their latest campaign targeting computer users in South Korea. Instead of attempting to infect targeted computers with ransomware, the group is now trying to install malware on PCs that mines for Monero, an...

We’re moving to Microsoft Secure

We’re packing up and moving! Starting January 2018, we’ll move our blogs to Microsoft Secure. At Microsoft Secure, you will find technical information for Office 365, Microsoft Azure, and Windows, alongside product updates, cybersecurity guidance, industry trends, and more. You can expect the sam...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Inna Shalom

The latest in our series featuring women in tech at Imperva is my interview with Inna Shalom, the data insight team lead at Imperva. She spoke about her professional journey and experience working in the cybersecurity industry. Tell us how you got into cybersecurity. IS: I spent the first six yea...

GCHQ Found -- and Disclosed -- a Windows 10 Vulnerability

Now this is good news. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre NCSC -- part of GCHQ -- found a serious vulnerability in Windows Defender their anti-virus component. Instead of keeping it secret and all of us vulnerable, it alerted Microsoft. I'd like believe the US does this, too...

Windows Defender Application Guard で Microsoft Edge を最もセキュアなブラウザーに

本記事は、Windows Security のブログ “Making Microsoft Edge the most secure browser with Windows Defender Application Guard” 2017 年 10 月 23 日 米国時間...

Patch Tuesday, December 2017 Edition

The final Patch Tuesday of the year is upon us, with Adobe and Microsoft each issuing security updates for their software once again. Redmond fixed problems with various flavors of Windows, Microsoft Edge, Office, Exchange and its Malware Protection Engine. And of course Adobe's got another...

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Detonating a bad rabbit: Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses

Windows Defender Antivirus uses a layered approach to protection: tiers of advanced automation and machine learning models evaluate files in order to reach a verdict on suspected malware. While Windows Defender AV detects a vast majority of new malware files at first sight, we always strive to...

Detonating a bad rabbit: Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses

Windows Defender Antivirus uses a layered approach to protection: tiers of advanced automation and machine learning models evaluate files in order to reach a verdict on suspected malware. While Windows Defender AV detects a vast majority of new malware files at first sight, we always strive to...