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Prevent threats with Microsoft Defender

The Microsoft Defender family offers comprehensive threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities for everyone—from individuals looking to protect their family to the world’s largest enterprises.

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May 9, 2019 3 min read

Detecting credential theft through memory access modelling with Microsoft Defender ATP

Microsoft Defender ATP instruments memory-related function calls such as VirtualAlloc and VirtualProtect to catch in-memory attack techniques like reflective DLL loading.
April 11, 2019 5 min read

Introducing the security configuration framework: A prioritized guide to hardening Windows 10

The security configuration framework is designed to help simplify security configuration while still allowing enough flexibility to allow you to balance security, productivity, and user experience.
November 29, 2018 5 min read

CISO series: Secure your privileged administrative accounts with a phased roadmap

If you are working on initiatives to secure your privileged accounts (and I hope you are), this post is designed to help.
July 11, 2018 11 min read

Hawkeye Keylogger – Reborn v8: An in-depth campaign analysis

Hawkeye Keylogger is an info-stealing malware that’s being sold as malware-as-a-service.
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February 21, 2018 5 min read

How to mitigate rapid cyberattacks such as Petya and WannaCrypt

Because of how critical security hygiene issues have become and how challenging it is for organizations to follow the guidance and the multiple recommended practices, Microsoft is taking a fresh approach to solving them.
February 5, 2018 4 min read

Overview of Petya, a rapid cyberattack

In the first blog post of this 3-part series, we introduced what rapid cyberattacks are and illustrated how they are different in terms of execution and outcome.
January 24, 2018 7 min read

Now you see me: Exposing fileless malware

Attackers are determined to circumvent security defenses using increasingly sophisticated techniques.
September 6, 2017 9 min read

Ransomware 1H 2017 review: Global outbreaks reinforce the value of security hygiene

The trend towards increasingly sophisticated malware behavior, highlighted by the use of exploits and other attack vectors, makes older platforms so much more susceptible to ransomware attacks.
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June 27, 2017 10 min read

New ransomware, old techniques: Petya adds worm capabilities

On June 27, 2017 reports of a ransomware infection began spreading across Europe.
April 13, 2017 4 min read

The two-pronged approach to detecting persistent adversaries

Advanced Persistent Threats use two primary methods of persistence: compromised endpoints and compromised credentials.
October 26, 2016 4 min read

Use Security Education and Awareness Programs to Your Advantage

This post is authored by Jonathan C. Trull, Worldwide Executive Cybersecurity Advisor, Enterprise Cybersecurity Group Most of today’s media coverage, internal security budgets, and venture capital dollars are focused on new and exciting technologies, such as next-generation endpoint solutions, user behavior analytics, and others.
February 11, 2015 2 min read

KRBTGT Account Password Reset Scripts now available for customers

Although pass-the-hash credential theft and reuse attacks aren’t new, more recently security researchers have been focusing on attack methods for Kerberos authentication.