Today’s world is flooded with definitions and perspectives on Zero Trust, so we are kicking off a blog series to bring clarity to what Zero Trust is and means. This first blog will draw on the past, present, and future to bring a clear vision while keeping our feet planted firmly on the ground of reality.
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Microsoft took action against the ZLoader trojan by working with telecommunications providers around the world to disrupt key ZLoader infrastructure. In this blog, we detail the various characteristics for identifying ZLoader activity, including its associated tactics, recent campaigns, and affiliated payloads, such as ransomware.
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Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) researchers have uncovered malware that creates “hidden” scheduled tasks as a defense evasion technique. In this post, we will demonstrate how threat actors create scheduled tasks, how they cover their tracks, and how the malware’s evasion techniques are used to maintain and ensure persistence on systems.
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On May 12, 2022, at the Microsoft Security Summit digital event, join other cybersecurity professionals in exploring how a comprehensive approach to security can empower organizations to innovate fearlessly—even in the face of evolving cyberthreats.
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Microsoft was named as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Detection and Response for Q1 of 2022—the ninth Leader position for Microsoft Security in a Forrester Wave™.
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For the fourth consecutive year, Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrated industry-leading protection in MITRE Engenuity’s independent ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations. These results highlighted the importance of taking an XDR-based approach spanning endpoints, identities, email and cloud, and the importance of both prevention and protection.
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Attackers haven’t wasted any time capitalizing on the rapid move to hybrid work. Every day cyber criminals and nation states alike have improved their targeting, speed and accuracy as the world adapted to working outside the office.
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Microsoft provides guidance for customers looking for protection against exploitation and ways to detect vulnerable installations on their network of the critical vulnerability CVE-2022-22965, also known as SpringShell or Spring4Shell.
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The importance of assessing and supporting the human aspect of recovery based on our experiences of recovering organizations.
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For the fourth year in a row, the independent MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations demonstrated that threats are no match for Microsoft’s multi-platform extended detection and response (XDR) defense capabilities.
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