Research

Explore in-depth research on the latest cybersecurity threats, trends, and defense strategies. Get insights from Microsoft that’ll help you better understand and respond to today’s challenges.

Refine Results

Filtered by

Clear All

Research

Refine results

Sort By

Content Type

Topic

Products and services

Publish date

Start Date

End Date

Streamline privacy management with Microsoft Priva
Protect and govern personal information, reduce privacy risks, and manage subject rights requests at scale with Microsoft Priva privacy risk management solutions.
Learn more
March 5, 2020

19 min read

Human-operated ransomware attacks: A preventable disaster

In human-operated ransomware attacks, adversaries exhibit extensive knowledge of systems administration and common network security misconfigurations, perform thorough reconnaissance, and adapt to what they discover in a compromised network.
February 4, 2020

5 min read

Ghost in the shell: Investigating web shell attacks

Web shell attacks allow adversaries to run commands and steal data from an Internet-facing server or use the server as launch pad for further attacks against the affected organization.
January 21, 2020

5 min read

sLoad launches version 2.0, Starslord

sLoad has launched version 2.0. With the new version, sLoad, which is a PowerShell-based Trojan downloader notable for its almost exclusive use of the Windows BITS service for malicious activities, has added an anti-analysis trick and the ability to track the stage of infection for every affected machine.
December 18, 2019

13 min read

Data science for cybersecurity: A probabilistic time series model for detecting RDP inbound brute force attacks

Microsoft Defender ATP data scientists and threat hunters collaborate to use a data science-driven approach to detecting RDP brute force attacks to protect customers against real-world threats.
Simplify endpoint management with Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based unified endpoint management platform that empowers IT to manage, assess, and protect apps and devices.
Learn more
December 17, 2019

1 min read

Norsk Hydro responds to ransomware attack with transparency

Aluminum supplier Norsk Hydro was attacked by LockerGoga, a form of ransomware.
December 12, 2019

8 min read

Multi-stage downloader Trojan sLoad abuses BITS almost exclusively for malicious activities

Many of today’s threats evolve to incorporate as many living-off-the-land techniques as possible into the attack chain.
December 12, 2019

9 min read

GALLIUM: Targeting global telecom

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is raising awareness of the ongoing activity by a group we call GALLIUM, targeting telecommunication providers.
December 11, 2019

6 min read

The quiet evolution of phishing

In 2019, we saw phishing attacks reach new levels of creativity and sophistication.
Secure and verify every identity with Microsoft Entra
Microsoft Entra expands beyond identity and access management with new product categories such as cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and decentralized identity.
Learn more
November 26, 2019

10 min read

Insights from one year of tracking a polymorphic threat

We discovered the polymoprhic threat Dexphot in October 2018.
November 7, 2019

4 min read

Microsoft works with researchers to detect and protect against new RDP exploits

The new exploit attacks show that BlueKeep will be a threat as long as systems remain unpatched, credential hygiene is not achieved, and overall security posture is not kept in check.
October 8, 2019

8 min read

In hot pursuit of elusive threats: AI-driven behavior-based blocking stops attacks in their tracks

Two new machine learning protection features within the behavioral blocking and containment capabilities in Microsoft Defender ATP specialize in detecting threats by analyzing behavior, adding new layers of protection after an attack has started running.
September 30, 2019

1 min read

TLS version enforcement capabilities now available per certificate binding on Windows Server 2019

Microsoft is pleased to announce a powerful new feature in Windows to make your transition to a TLS 1.