Download at your own risk: Bitcoin miners bundled with game repacks
Recently we have seen an emerging trend among malware distributors – Bitcoin miners being integrated into installers of game repacks.
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FinFisher exposed: A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (Office 365 ATP) blocked many notable zero-day exploits in 2017. -
Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign
Update: Further analysis of this campaign points to a poisoned update for a peer-to-peer (P2P) application. -
Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners
The surge in Bitcoin prices has driven widescale interest in cryptocurrencies. Retain Microsoft Security Experts
Microsoft Security Experts are now available to strengthen your team with managed security services. Learn how to defend against threats with security experts.
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Poisoned peer-to-peer app kicked off Dofoil coin miner outbreak
On March 7, we reported that a massive Dofoil campaign attempted to install malicious cryptocurrency miners on hundreds of thousands of computers. -
Enhancing Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection with detonation-based heuristics and machine learning
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) uses a comprehensive and multi-layered solution to protect mailboxes, files, online storage, and applications against a wide range of threats. -
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 24 is now available
Download the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 24 and check out the brand new interactive security insights to dig into the latest security trends. -
Microsoft Security: How to cultivate a diverse cybersecurity team
A diverse cybersecurity team will help you generate the innovative ideas you need to confront today and tomorrow’s cyber threats. Modernize your Security Operations Center with Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM solution powered by AI and automation that delivers intelligent security analytics across your entire enterprise.
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Threat actor leverages coin miner techniques to stay under the radar – here’s how to spot them
BISMUTH, which has been running increasingly complex cyberespionage attacks as early as 2012, deployed Monero coin miners in campaigns from July to August 2020. -
Microsoft brings advanced hardware security to Server and Edge with Secured-core
Microsoft is collaborating with partners to expand Secured-core to Windows Server, Azure Stack HCI, and Azure-certified IoT devices. -
Defending against cryptojacking with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intel TDT
With cryptocurrency mining on the rise, Microsoft and Intel have partnered to deliver threat detection technology to enable EDR capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. -
The evolution of a matrix: How ATT&CK for Containers was built
As containers become a major part of many organizations’ IT workloads, it becomes crucial to consider the unique security threats that target such environments when building security solutions.
