Security

Technical articles from Microsoft’s official blogs of in-depth discussions of security, cybersecurity and technology trends affecting trust in computing. This includes timely security news, trends, and best practices.

The Twelve Days of Blog-mas: No.3 – Windows Local Admin Password Solution (LAPS)

Buenos días and welcome to número tres in the holiday ’23 series.  This one is sure to please the crowd – it’s the NEW AND IMPROVED easy to setup/deploy/use solution for when IT Ops/Support needs a local admin ID and password to perform some management task(s) on a Windows endpoint.  As many people know, we …

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Identifying Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) Phishing Attacks through 3rd-Party Network Detection

Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing attacks represent an emerging and concerning trend, surpassing conventional phishing methods in their sophistication. These attacks possess the capability to maneuver around the security measures of multifactor authentication (MFA) by leveraging reverse-proxy functionality.  One prominent actor, identified as DEV-1101 and tracked by Microsoft, stands responsible for the development, facilitation, and promotion of …

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Defender for cloud’s Agentless secret scanning for virtual machines is now generally available!

Cloud cybersecurity is of paramount importance in today’s digital landscape, as organizations increasingly rely on cloud services to store and manage sensitive data, applications, and infrastructure. Attacks on cloud infrastructure pose severe risks to organizations such as data theft, ransomware attacks, crypto mining attacks, and service disruption. During a cyber-attack, after gaining initial access to …

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Diamond Sleet supply chain compromise distributes a modified CyberLink installer

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a supply chain attack by the North Korea-based threat actor Diamond Sleet (ZINC) involving a malicious variant of an application developed by CyberLink Corp., a software company that develops multimedia software products. This malicious file is a legitimate CyberLink application installer that has been modified to include malicious code that …

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Defender for Cloud unified Vulnerability Assessment powered by Defender Vulnerability Management

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a multicloud application protection platform (CNAPP) designed to protect your cloud-based applications from code-to-cloud. A key component of cloud security is continuously monitoring and managing new vulnerabilities across your cloud workloads. Vulnerability management helps organizations improve their security posture, reduce the attack surface, and prevent security breaches. We are thrilled …

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