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Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:58:23 +0000
Statistics about the success and sophistication of malware can be daunting. The following figure is no different: Approximately 96% of all malware is polymorphic meaning that it is only experienced by a single user and device before it is replaced with yet another malware variant. This is because in most cases malware is caught
Read MoreCredit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:58:49 +0000
The annual PWN2OWN exploit contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, brings together some of the top security talent from across the globe in a friendly competition. For the participants, these events are a platform to demonstrate world-class skills and vie for significant cash prizes. For companies like Microsoft, where we have
Read MoreCredit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:27:06 +0000
On March 7, we reported that a massive Dofoil campaign attempted to install malicious cryptocurrency miners on hundreds of thousands of computers. Windows Defender Antivirus, with its behavior monitoring, machine learning technologies, and layered approach to security detected and blocked the attack within milliseconds.Windows 10 S, a special configuration of Windows 10 providing Microsoft-verified security,
Read MoreCredit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:57:36 +0000
The surge in Bitcoin prices has driven widescale interest in cryptocurrencies. While the future of digital currencies is uncertain, they are shaking up the cybersecurity landscape as they continue to influence the intent and nature of attacks. Cybercriminals gave cryptocurrencies a bad name when ransomware started instructing victims to pay ransom in the form of
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:06:28 +0000
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| Both artificial intelligence and machine learning are being adopted in cybersecurity. But before they achieve mainstream traction, it’s important to discuss their impact to the industry. Categories: Tags: adversarialAIartificial intelligencecybersecuritymachine learningML |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Ilijana Vavan| Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:57:46 +0000
An expedition to the North Pole celebrates women’s rights and gender equality
Read MoreCredit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:58:45 +0000
Just before noon on March 6 (PST), Windows Defender AV blocked more than 80,000 instances of several sophisticated trojans that exhibited advanced cross-process injection techniques, persistence mechanisms, and evasion methods. Behavior-based signals coupled with cloud-powered machine learning models uncovered this new wave of infection attempts. The trojans, which are new variants of Dofoil (also known
Read MoreCredit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:37:20 +0000
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (Office 365 ATP) blocked many notable zero-day exploits in 2017. In our analysis, one activity group stood out: NEODYMIUM. This threat actor is remarkable for two reasons: Its access to sophisticated zero-day exploits for Microsoft and Adobe software Its use of an advanced piece of government-grade surveillance spyware FinFisher, also
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