July 8, 2020

Microsoft Research has announced a cloud-based malware detection service called Project Freta to detect rootkits, cryptominers, and previously undetected malware strains lurking in your Linux cloud VM images.

July 8, 2020

“What would happen if a commercial cloud could guarantee the capture of malware, no matter how expensive or exotic, in volatile memory?” Microsoft has built an absolute behemoth of a cloud virtual machine (VM) security tool from scratch in Rust*…

July 8, 2020

Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Senior Researcher, was awarded the ACL 2020 Best Overall Paper Award  for Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList paper with co-authors Tongshuang Wu, University of Washington, Carlos Guestrin and Sameer Singh, University of California…

July 7, 2020

Microsoft Research has developed a system called Project Freta to do scan thousands of virtual cloud machines for malware. It has launched the project as a prototype for public use. Virtual machines (VMs) are software versions of computers that run…

July 7, 2020

Microsoft yesterday revealed Project Freta, a new Microsoft Research development that is a virtual-machine (VM) forensics platform. Users will be able to leverage Freta to find malicious software on cloud infrastructure.

July 7, 2020

The new Microsoft Research project hopes to automate virtual-machine forensics in the cloud. Microsoft has unveiled Project Freta, a potential future virtual-machine (VM) forensics service that will allow anyone to automatically ferret out malicious software hiding in memory on cloud infrastructure.

July 6, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has created a global health crisis that is unprecedented in our lifetimes. It is hard to point to any other health crisis in recent history that has captivated the collective mindset of the entire human population all…