Brian Caswell
Principal Security Engineer
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Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen
| Brian Caswell, Bob Fleck, Mike Walker, and Sarah Smith
Project Ire examined a timely malware sample and determined its intent through reverse engineering—identifying LOTUSLITE characteristics even as most major EDR tools did not detect it.
In the news | Infosecurity Magazine
Microsoft Debuts AI Agent Able to Reverse Engineer Malware
Project Ire autonomously identifies malware at scale
| Brian Caswell, Dustin Fraze, Sarah Smith, Rodrigo Racanicci, Tim Middleton-Sally, Shelby Hayes, Stanley He, Katy Smith, Bhakta Pradhan, and Mike Walker
Designed to classify software without context, Project Ire replicates the gold standard in malware analysis through reverse engineering. It streamlines a complex, expert-driven process, making large-scale malware detection faster & more consistent.
In the news | InfoWorld
Microsoft open-sources fuzzing test framework
Microsoft is looking to help developers continuously fuzz-test code prior to release, via the open source OneFuzz framework. Described as a self-hosted fuzzing-as-a-service platform, OneFuzz enables developer-driven fuzzing to identify software vulnerabilites during the development process. Source code for OneFuzz…
In the news | MS Power User
Microsoft releases Project OneFuzz framework, an open source tool to find and fix bugs
Microsoft yesterday announced the release of a new tool called Project OneFuzz. Project OneFuzz is an extensible fuzz testing framework for Azure that is used by Microsoft Edge, Windows, and teams across Microsoft. Microsoft is now open sourcing the tool…
In the news | Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft announces new Project OneFuzz framework, an open source developer tool to find and fix bugs at scale
Microsoft is dedicated to working with the community and our customers to continuously improve and tune our platform and products to help defend against the dynamic and sophisticated threat landscape. Earlier this year, we announced that we would replace the…
In the news | CBR
Microsoft’s Free Cloud Rootkit Sweeper is Hitting Some Sweet Spots
“What would happen if a commercial cloud could guarantee the capture of malware, no matter how expensive or exotic, in volatile memory?” Microsoft has built an absolute behemoth of a cloud virtual machine (VM) security tool from scratch in Rust*…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft’s Project Freta: This new free service spots rootkits lurking in cloud VMs
The new Microsoft Research project hopes to automate virtual-machine forensics in the cloud. Microsoft has unveiled Project Freta (opens in new tab), a potential future virtual-machine (VM) forensics service that will allow anyone to automatically ferret out malicious software hiding in…