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ZINC weaponizing open-source software
In recent months, Microsoft has detected a wide range of social engineering campaigns using weaponized legitimate open-source software by an actor we track as ZINC. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC observed activity targeting employees in organizations across multiple industries includi...
Hookup site targeted by typo-squatters
Ethical hacker and security researcher Kody Kinzie shared with BleepingComputer a list of over 50 domains of which many are spelling variations of the brand name Sniffies. Sniffies identifies itself as a "modern, map-based, meetup app for gay, bi, and curious guys." Kody used an open source tool...
Implementing a Zero Trust strategy after compromise recovery
What changes after compromise recovery? After a successful compromise recovery effort, you are back in control. Likely, you gave your team a round of applause and took a sigh of relief. Now what? Is everything going back to as it was in the past? Absolutely not! A compromise recovery engagement i...
CVE-2022-35828
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability...
CVE-2022-35828
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability...
Privilege escalation
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability...
Secure your endpoints with Transparity and Microsoft
This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. Endpoint protection platforms EPPs are dead and no longer sufficient to protect your organization, right? Wrong. When it comes to cybersecurity, the ability to normalize and correlat...
Secure your endpoints with Transparity and Microsoft
This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. Endpoint protection platforms EPPs are dead and no longer sufficient to protect your organization, right? Wrong. When it comes to cybersecurity, the ability to normalize and correlat...
Microsoft Defender 安全漏洞
Microsoft Defender is a threat protection software from Microsoft USA. A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows Defender. No information about this vulnerability is available at this time, so stay tuned to CNNVD or the vendor announcement...
KLA19248 PE vulnerability in Microsoft System Center
An elevation of privilege vulnerability was found in Microsoft System Center. Malicious users can exploit this vulnerability to gain privileges. Original advisories CVE-2022-35828 Related products Windows-Defender CVE list CVE-2022-35828 critical KB list Solution Install necessary updates from th...
Microsoft Warns of Ransomware Attacks by Iranian Phosphorus Hacker Group
Microsoft's threat intelligence division on Wednesday assessed that a subgroup of the Iranian threat actor tracked as Phosphorus is conducting ransomware attacks as a "form of moonlighting" for personal gain. The tech giant, which is monitoring the activity cluster under the moniker DEV-0270 aka...
Stop Ransomware with Microsoft Security digital event presents threat intelligence in action
One of the biggest challenges in security today is visibility. And by visibility, I don’t just mean keeping an eye on ever-evolving cyberthreats, but also seeing your own security environment clearly—especially where you’re vulnerable. For defenders who are working hard to manage threats across...
Microsoft Security highlights from Black Hat USA 2022
Black Hat USA 2022 marked the twenty-fifth year that security researchers, security architects, and other security professionals have gathered to share the latest research, developments, and trends. Microsoft was among the companies participating in the conference, which was from August 6 to 11,...
Uncovering a ChromeOS remote memory corruption vulnerability
Microsoft discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in a ChromeOS component that can be triggered remotely, allowing attackers to perform either a denial-of-service DoS or, in extreme cases, remote code execution RCE. Following our D-Bus blog post that focused on Linux, we searched for similar...
Hardware-based threat defense against increasingly complex cryptojackers
Even with the dip in the value of cryptocurrencies in the past few months, cryptojackers – trojanized coin miners that attackers distribute to use compromised devices’ computing power for their objectives – continue to be widespread. In the past several months, Microsoft Defender Antivirus detect...
Disrupting SEABORGIUM’s ongoing phishing operations
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC has observed and taken actions to disrupt campaigns launched by SEABORGIUM, an actor Microsoft has tracked since 2017. SEABORGIUM is a threat actor that originates from Russia, with objectives and victimology that align closely with Russian state...
How IT and security teams can work together to improve endpoint security
For executives in the IT and security spaces, the current climate offers reasons to worry. As workers become accustomed to new flexibility in the workplace, hybrid and remote work options present more challenges. Users want to access corporate resources from their own devices without the...
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting proactively hunts threats
Today, we announced the general availability of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting to support organizations and their cybersecurity employees with proactive threat hunting. Defender Experts for Hunting was created for customers who have a robust security operations center but want Microsoft t...
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting proactively hunts threats
Today, we announced the general availability of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting to support organizations and their cybersecurity employees with proactive threat hunting. Defender Experts for Hunting was created for customers who have a robust security operations center but want Microsoft t...
Microsoft announces new solutions for threat intelligence and attack surface management
Uncover adversaries with new Microsoft Defender threat intelligence products The threat landscape is more sophisticated than ever and damages have soared—the Federal Bureau of Investigations 2021 IC3 report found that the cost of cybercrime now totals more than USD6.9 billion.1 To counter these...