July 8, 2020

Boffins in Microsoft Research has pulled the covers off Project Freta, a free service aimed at spotting memory malfeasance. A technology demonstration named for the street in Warsaw, Poland where Marie Curie was born, Freta comes from the NExT Security…

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.