Our analysis of a recent version of a previously reported info-stealing Android malware, delivered through an ongoing SMS campaign, demonstrates the continuous evolution of mobile threats. Masquerading as a banking rewards app, this new version has additional remote access trojan ... continue reading

We discussed Microsoft Detection and Response Team’s (DART) threat hunting principles in part 1 of The art and science behind Microsoft threat hunting blog series. In this follow-up post, we will talk about some general hunting strategies, frameworks, tools, and ... continue reading

This blog post has been co-authored by Darius Ryals, General Manager of Partner Promises and Azure Chief Information Security Officer. Today we’re announcing Azure Payment HSM has achieved Payment Card Industry Personal Identification Number (PCI PIN) making Azure the first hyperscale ... continue reading

Attackers are constantly evolving, becoming increasingly sophisticated and destructive—the median time for an attacker to access your private data if you fall victim to a phishing email is 1 hour, 12 minutes.1 Microsoft tracks more than 35 ransomware families and ... continue reading

Improving performance has always been a major goal for MsQuic. Recently, we have put in a lot of effort into getting ultra-low latency with MsQuic. We have prototyped a fully functioning XDP data path for MsQuic to bypass Windows TCP/IP ... continue reading

What changes after compromise recovery? After the final compromise recovery, steps have been completed and we are back in control. There has been a round of applause and many sighs of relief.  Now what? Is everything going back to as ... continue reading

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA.  Endpoint protection platforms (EPPs) are dead and no longer sufficient to protect your organization, right? Wrong. When it comes to cybersecurity, the ... continue reading

  Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide.   These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we ... continue reading

Introduction: We understand the benefits of modernizing endpoint management using Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) for both physical and virtual endpoints (W365). We see organizations of different types & sizes are in different phases in their cloud journey. There are businesses ... continue reading

Shortly after the destructive cyberattacks against the Albanian government in mid-July, the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) was engaged by the Albanian government to lead an investigation into the attacks. At the time of the attacks and our engagement ... continue reading