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Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2020: Cyber Threat Sophistication on the Rise

September 29, 2020 TH Author AI and machine learning, Cybersecurity, email security, Network Security, Phishing, ransomware, Security Intelligence, Security strategies

A new report from Microsoft shows it is clear that threat actors have rapidly increased in sophistication over the past year, using techniques that make them harder to identify.
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Ransom from Home – How to close the cyber front door to remote working ransomware attacks

September 16, 2020 TH Author anti-ransomware, antivirus, Consumer, Current News, Endpoint security, Home Network Security, Mobile Security, Password Management, ransomware, Security, Uncategorized, VPN

Coronavirus has caused a major shift to our working patterns. In many cases these will long outlast the pandemic. But working from home has its own risks. One is that you may invite ransomware attacks from a new breed of cyber-criminal who has previously confined his efforts to directly targeting the corporate network. Why? Because…
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1H 2020 Cyber Security Defined by Covid-19 Pandemic

September 2, 2020 TH Author COVID-19 scams, email threats, ransomware, roundup, Security

When we published our 2020 Predictions report in December, we didn’t realize there was a global pandemic brewing that would give cybercriminals an almost daily news cycle to take advantage of in their attacks against people and organizations around the world. Malicious actors have always taken advantage of big news to use as lures for…
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The Life Cycle of a Compromised (Cloud) Server

September 1, 2020 TH Author cloud, Cloud Security, Compromised Server, cryptomining, Cybercrime, Cyprocurrency Mining, Lifecycle, Network, ransomware, Security, Targeted Attacks, targeted ransomware

Trend Micro Research has developed a go-to resource for all things related to cybercriminal underground hosting and infrastructure. Today we released the second in this three-part series of reports which detail the what, how, and why of cybercriminal hosting (see the first part here). As part of this report, we dive into the common life…
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Ransomware is Still a Blight on Business

July 28, 2020 TH Author No More Ransom, Partners, partnership, public private partnership, ransomware, Security

Ransomware is Still a Blight on Business Trends come and go with alarming regularity in cybersecurity. Yet a persistent menace over the past few years has been ransomware. Now mainly targeting organizations rather than consumers, and with increasingly sophisticated tools and tactics at their disposal, the cybercriminals behind these campaigns have been turning up the…
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The science behind Microsoft Threat Protection: Attack modeling for finding and stopping evasive ransomware

June 10, 2020 TH Author AI and machine learning, Automation, Cybersecurity, data science, Endpoint security, human-operated ransomware, lateral movement, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft security intelligence, Microsoft Threat Protection, PARINACOTA, probablistic approach, ransomware, Security, Security Intelligence, Threat protection

Microsoft Threat Protection uses a data-driven approach for identifying lateral movement, combining industry-leading optics, expertise, and data science to deliver automated discovery of some of the most critical threats today.
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Ransomware groups continue to target healthcare, critical services; here’s how to reduce risk

April 28, 2020 TH Author Cybersecurity, human-operated ransomware, Maze, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft security intelligence, NetWalker, PonyFinal, ransomware, REvil, RobbinHood, Vatet

Multiple ransomware groups that have been accumulating access and maintaining persistence on target networks for several months activated dozens of ransomware deployments in the first two weeks of April 2020.
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Microsoft works with healthcare organizations to protect from popular ransomware during COVID-19 crisis: Here’s what to do

April 1, 2020 TH Author coronavirus-themed threats, covid-19, Cybersecurity, Endpoint security, gateway, Healthcare, human-operated ransomware, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft security intelligence, ransomware, remote work, REvil, Secure remote work, Securing remote workers series, Security Intelligence, Sodinokibi, Threat protection, virtual private network (VPN), virtual private server (VPS), VPN

Microsoft identified several dozens of hospitals with vulnerable gateway and VPN appliances. We sent these hospitals a first-of-its-kind notification with important info about the vulnerabilities, how attackers can take advantage of them, and a strong recommendation to apply security updates.
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Latest Astaroth living-off-the-land attacks are even more invisible but not less observable

March 23, 2020 TH Author Alternate Data Streams (ADS), Astaroth, behavioral blocking and containment, Cybersecurity, Endpoint security, fileless, info-stealing malware, living-off-the-land, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft security intelligence, ransomware, Security Intelligence, Threat protection, WMIC

Astaroth is back sporting significant changes. The updated attack chain maintains Astaroth’s complex, multi-component nature and continues its pattern of detection evasion.
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Secured-core PCs: A brief showcase of chip-to-cloud security against kernel attacks

March 17, 2020 TH Author chip to cloud security, CVE-2018-19320, Cybersecurity, hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI), kernel attacks, Microsoft Defender ATP, ransomware, RobbinHood, Secured-core PCs, virtualization-based security (VBS), Windows Defender System Guard

Secured-core PCs combine virtualization, operating system, and hardware and firmware protection. Along with Microsoft Defender ATP, Secured-core PCs provide end-to-end protection against advanced attacks that leverage driver vulnerabilities to gain kernel privileges.
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