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Dismantling ZLoader: How malicious ads led to disabled security tools and ransomware

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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Tarrask malware uses scheduled tasks for defense evasion

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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Learn the latest cybersecurity techniques at the Microsoft Security Summit

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 365 Defender demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations

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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IBM z16: A mainframe designed for AI, hybrid cloud, security and open source

Today’s announcement of IBM’s new z16 mainframes promises a system that caters to enterprise needs that include support for AI, security, hybrid cloud, and open source efforts well into the future.The new, more powerful and feature-rich Big Iron boasts an AI accelerator built onto its core Telum processor that can do 300 billion deep-learning inferences per day with one millisecond latency and includes what IBM calls a quantum-safe system to protect organizations from anticipated quantum-based security threats.
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SpringShell RCE vulnerability: Guidance for protecting against and detecting CVE-2022-22965

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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Fortinet tightens integration of enterprise security, networking controls

Fortinet has made available a new release of its core FortiOS software that includes features the vendor says will help enterprises more tightly meld security and networking controls.FortiOS 7.2, has 300 new features including AI support to help stop network threats more quickly, sandboxing to help fight ransomware threats, and improved SD-WAN, branch, and edge orchestration.How to choose an edge gateway
FortiOS is the vendor’s operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components. FortiOS implements Fortinet Security Fabric and includes network security such as firewalling, access control, and authentication in addition to SD-WAN, switching, and wireless services. To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

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