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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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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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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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Out of sight but not invisible: Defeating fileless malware with behavior monitoring, AMSI, and next-gen AV

September 27, 2018 admin Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), behavior monitoring, cybersecurity, fileless malware, Windows 10, Windows 10 in S mode, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Defender ATP, Windows Defender AV

Credit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:00:24 +0000

Removing the need for files is the next progression of attacker techniques. While fileless techniques used to be employed almost exclusively in sophisticated cyberattacks, they are now becoming widespread in common malware, too.

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Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’

January 16, 2018 admin Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), Antivirus, antivirus software, Cloud Computing, cybersecurity, Fall Creators Update, fileless malware, in-memory attacks, Intelligent Security Graph, machine learning, Next-gen antivirus, Powershell, script-based attacks, Security Intelligence, Security Response, Windows 10, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Defender ATP, Windows Defender AV, Windows Defender Exploit Guard

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:00:07 +0000

Scripts are becoming the weapon of choice of sophisticated activity groups responsible for targeted attacks as well as malware authors who indiscriminately deploy commodity threats. Scripting engines such as JavaScript, VBScript, and PowerShell offer tremendous benefits to attackers. They run through legitimate processes and are perfect tools for living off the landstaying away from the