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Credit to Author: Tanmay Ganacharya| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000

​For the fifth consecutive year, Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrated leading extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities in the independent MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise. The attack used during the test highlights the importance of a unified XDR platform and showcases Microsoft 365 Defender as a leading solution, enabled by next-gen protection, industry-first capabilities like automatic attack disruption, and more.

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:30:00 +0000

Since February 2023, Microsoft has observed a high volume of password spray attacks attributed to Peach Sandstorm, an Iranian nation-state group. In a small number of cases, Peach Sandstorm successfully authenticated to an account and used a combination of publicly available and custom tools for persistence, lateral movement, and exfiltration.

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:30:00 +0000

A set of memory corruption vulnerabilities in the ncurses library could have allowed attackers to chain the vulnerabilities to elevate privileges and run code in the targeted program’s context or perform other malicious actions.

The post Uncursing the ncurses: Memory corruption vulnerabilities found in library appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:00:00 +0000

The threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-0324 is a financially motivated group known to gain initial access using email-based initial infection vectors and then hand off access to compromised networks to other threat actors. These handoffs frequently lead to ransomware deployment. Beginning in July 2023, Storm-0324 was observed distributing payloads using an open-source tool […]

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:00:00 +0000

We’re announcing the release of a second version of our threat matrix for storage services, a structured tool that assists in identifying and analyzing potential security threats on data stored in cloud storage services.

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Credit to Author: Kacey Lemieux| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

As the world becomes more data-driven and the privacy landscape continues to evolve, the need to take a proactive privacy approach increases. Here’s how Microsoft Priva can help.

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Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:30:00 +0000

China-based actor Flax Typhoon is exploiting known vulnerabilities for public-facing servers, legitimate VPN software, and open-source malware to gain access to Taiwanese organizations, but not taking further action.

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