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Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Endpoint Management Tools

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

This month, Microsoft has been recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management Tools. This blog post outlines the “so what” for IT leaders, and why we believe this Gartner analysis deserves your focus right now.

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Cyber Signals: Defend against the new ransomware landscape

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Today, Microsoft is excited to publish our second edition of Cyber Signals, spotlighting security trends and insights gathered from Microsoft’s 43 trillion security signals and 8,500 security experts. In this edition, we pull back the curtain on the evolving cybercrime economy and the rise of Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS).

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Uncovering a ChromeOS remote memory corruption vulnerability

Credit to Author: Katie McCafferty| Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:38:06 +0000

Microsoft discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in a ChromeOS component that could have been triggered remotely, allowing attackers to perform either a denial-of-service (DoS) or, in extreme cases, remote code execution (RCE).

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Hardware-based threat defense against increasingly complex cryptojackers

Credit to Author: Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:00:00 +0000

To provide advanced protection against increasingly complex and evasive cryptojackers, Microsoft Defender Antivirus integrates with Intel® Threat Detection Technology (TDT) that applies machine learning to low-level CPU telemetry in detecting cryptojackers, even when the malware is obfuscated and can evade security tools.

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Connect with Microsoft Security experts at the 2022 Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft speakers at Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit focus on permissions management, infrastructure attacks, and moving to cloud-based identity.

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Disrupting SEABORGIUM’s ongoing phishing operations

Credit to Author: Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed and taken actions to disrupt campaigns launched by SEABORGIUM in campaigns involve persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft.

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