How the Microsoft Incident Response team helps customers remediate threats

Credit to Author: Microsoft Incident Response| Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Incident Response is a global team comprised of cybersecurity experts with deep, highly specialized knowledge in breach detection, response, and recovery.

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Multiple high severity vulnerabilities in CODESYS V3 SDK could lead to RCE or DoS 

Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Microsoft researchers identified multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the CODESYS V3 SDK that could put operational technology (OT) infrastructure at risk of attacks, such as remote code execution (RCE) and denial of service (DoS).

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New Microsoft Security innovations expand multicloud visibility and enhance multiplatform protection

Credit to Author: Vasu Jakkal| Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Gain greater visibility into your multicloud environments to better understand your security posture, minimize risk, and detect and respond to threats in real time.

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Microsoft Purview data security mitigations for BazaCall and other human-operated data exfiltration attacks

Credit to Author: Steve Vandenberg| Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 17:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Defender is our toolset for prevention and mitigation of data exfiltration and ransomware attacks. Microsoft Purview data security offers important mitigations as well and should be used as part of a defense-in-depth strategy.

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Boost identity protection with Axiad Cloud and Microsoft Entra ID

Credit to Author: Karen Larson| Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

As IT environments become more complex and multilayered to combat cybersecurity attacks, authentication processes for applications, operating systems, and workplace locations are increasingly managed in silos. Axiad Cloud and Microsoft Entra ID help to strengthen security perimeters by provisioning and managing phishing-resistant, passwordless credentials.

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Adopting guidance from the US National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the Internet of Things

Credit to Author: David Weston| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft is invested in helping partners create Internet of Things solutions with strong security products that support the March 2023 United States National Cybersecurity Strategy.

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Microsoft AI Red Team building future of safer AI

Credit to Author: Ram Shankar Siva Kumar| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:00:00 +0000

We’re sharing best practices from our team so others can benefit from Microsoft’s learnings. These best practices can help security teams proactively hunt for failures in AI systems, define a defense-in-depth approach, and create a plan to evolve and grow your security posture as generative AI systems evolve.

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Cyber Signals: Sporting events and venues draw cyberthreats at increasing rates

Credit to Author: Vasu Jakkal| Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Today we released the fifth edition of Cyber Signals spotlighting threats to large sporting events, based on our learnings and telemetry from delivering cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure facilities during the State of Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup 2022™.

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Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams

Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard (previously tracked as NOBELIUM).

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 gets highest rating in SE Labs Enterprise Email Security Services test for Q1 2023

Credit to Author: Sehrish Khan| Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

In Q1 2023 Q1, Microsoft was once again part of an evaluation of email security platforms conducted by SE Labs. We are thrilled to announce that Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has once again received an AAA Protection Award, the highest possible that a vendor can achieve in this test.

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