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Digging deep for PLATINUM

January 23, 2017 admin Activity groups, Advanced persistent threats, advanced threat, enterprise software security, guidance, hunters, malware, malware research, Microsoft Security Essentials, MMPC, phishing, research, Uncategorized, Windows 10, Windows Defender, Windows Defender ATP, Windows Defender for Windows 10

This blog introduces our latest report from the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team. You can read the full report at: PLATINUM: Targeted attacks in South and Southeast Asia There is no shortage of headlines about cybercriminals launching large-scale attacks against organizations. For us, the activity groups that pose the most danger are the ones…

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MSRT March 2016 – Vonteera

January 23, 2017 admin Fynloski, Malicious Software Removal Tool, malware, malware research, MSRT, telemetry, Uncategorized, Vonteera, Windows Defender blogs for home users and small businesses

As part of our ongoing effort to provide better malware protection, the March release of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) will include detections for Vonteera – a family of browser modifiers, and Fynloski – a family of backdoor trojans. In this blog, we’ll focus on the Vonteera family of browser modifiers. BrowserModifier:Win32/Vonteera We…