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A case study in industry collaboration: Poisoned RDP vulnerability disclosure and response

August 7, 2019 admin CVE-2019-0887, cybersecurity, Endpoint security, Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), exploit, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft security intelligence, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Security Response, Vulnerability, Windows Security

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 23:50:25 +0000

Through a cross-company, cross-continent collaboration, we discovered a vulnerability, secured customers, and developed fix, all while learning important lessons that we can share with the industry.

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Dismantling a fileless campaign: Microsoft Defender ATP’s Antivirus exposes Astaroth attack

July 30, 2019 admin AI and machine learning, Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), Astaroth, behavior monitoring, Command-line scanning, cybersecurity, Endpoint security, Execution stage, fileless, fileless malware, heuristics, Initial access stage, living-off-the-land, Microsoft Defender ATP, Microsoft security intelligence, Security Intelligence, Threat protection, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Security, WMIC

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:51 +0000

Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP’s Antivirus exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory

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New machine learning model sifts through the good to unearth the bad in evasive malware

July 25, 2019 admin AI and machine learning, Antivirus, automation, cybersecurity, detection evasion, Endpoint security, LockerGoga, machine learning, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Defender ATP, Microsoft security intelligence, monotonic models, next generation protection, Windows Defender Antivirus

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:30:55 +0000

Most machine learning models are trained on a mix of malicious and clean features. Attackers routinely try to throw these models off balance by stuffing clean features into malware. Monotonic models are resistant against adversarial attacks because they are trained differently: they only look for malicious features. The magic is this: Attackers can’t evade a monotonic model by adding clean features. To evade a monotonic model, an attacker would have to remove malicious features.

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How to cost-effectively manage and secure a mobile ecosystem

July 16, 2019 admin Endpoint security, Microsoft Intune, Mobile Security, Threat protection

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:00:44 +0000

In a world of booming mobility, Pradeo Security Mobile Threat Defense and Microsoft are partnering together for a brighter and more secure future.

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Dismantling a fileless campaign: Microsoft Defender ATP next-gen protection exposes Astaroth attack

July 8, 2019 admin AI and machine learning, Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), Astaroth, behavior monitoring, Command-line scanning, cybersecurity, Endpoint security, Execution stage, fileless, fileless malware, heuristics, Initial access stage, living-off-the-land, Microsoft Defender ATP, Security Intelligence, Threat protection, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Security, WMIC

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:51 +0000

Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP next-generation protection exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory

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Microsoft’s Threat & Vulnerability Management now helps thousands of customers to discover, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in real time

July 2, 2019 admin cybersecurity, Endpoint security, Microsoft Defender ATP, Security Intelligence, Threat and Vulnerability Management, Threat protection, TVM, Windows Security

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:00:13 +0000

I’m excited to announce that Microsoft’s Threat & Vulnerability Management solution is generally available as of June 28! We have been working closely with customers for more than a year to incorporate their real needs and feedback to better address vulnerability management. Our goal is to empower defenders with the tools they need to better…

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3 strategies for building an information protection program

June 25, 2019 admin Data governance, Endpoint security, Information/data protection

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:20:29 +0000

Five years ago, we started on a journey to update and simplify information protection at Microsoft. We’ve learned a lot about data protection and tools and today we’re sharing some of our best practices.

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Inside out: Get to know the advanced technologies at the core of Microsoft Defender ATP next generation protection

June 25, 2019 admin AI and machine learning, Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), behavior monitoring, behavior-based machine learning, cybersecurity, Endpoint security, heuristics, machine learning, memory scanning, Microsoft Defender ATP, next-generation protections, Threat protection, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Security

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:00:55 +0000

While Windows Defender Antivirus makes catching 5 billion threats on devices every month look easy, multiple advanced detection and prevention technologies work under the hood to make this happen. Multiple next-generation protection engines to detect and stop a wide range of threats and attacker techniques at multiple points, providing industry-best detection and blocking capabilities.

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