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Research at Microsoft 2020: Addressing the present while looking to the future
Microsoft researchers pursue the big questions about what the world will be like in the future and the role technology will play. Not only do they take on the responsibility of exploring the long-term vision of their research, but they…
In the news | Medium
Project Freta: Microsoft’s Cloud-based Memory Analysis Engine
Ah, the sweet days of running your memory sample through volatility. It’s not over yet — but Microsoft has done an amazing job at releasing a new service, which can perform a full-blown volatile memory analysis of a Linux system,…
In the news | Windows Central
Microsoft’s Project Freta aims to eliminate Linux malware
Last week, Microsoft unveiled Project Freta, a cloud-based malware detection service (via Bleeping Computer). The project aims to detect malware that previously went undetected on Linux cloud VM images. It’s a free service from Microsoft Research that can detect OS…
In the news | IPS News
Fret not, Linux fans, Microsoft’s Project Freta is here to peer deep into your memory… to spot malware
Boffins in Microsoft Research has pulled the covers off Project Freta, a free service aimed at spotting memory malfeasance. A technology demonstration named for the street in Warsaw, Poland where Marie Curie was born, Freta comes from the NExT Security…
In the news | BleepingComputer
First look: Microsoft’s Project Freta detects Linux malware for free
Microsoft Research has announced a cloud-based malware detection service called Project Freta to detect rootkits, cryptominers, and previously undetected malware strains lurking in your Linux cloud VM images.
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 | infosecurity
Microsoft Research Develops Invisible Cloud Malware Scanner
Microsoft Research has developed a system called Project Freta to do scan thousands of virtual cloud machines for malware. It has launched the project as a prototype for public use. Virtual machines (VMs) are software versions of computers that run…
In the news | WinBuzzer
Microsoft Project Freta Promises to Stop Azure Malware
Microsoft yesterday revealed Project Freta, a new Microsoft Research development that is a virtual-machine (VM) forensics platform. Users will be able to leverage Freta to find malicious software on cloud infrastructure.
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, a potential future virtual-machine (VM) forensics service that will allow anyone to automatically ferret out malicious software hiding in memory on cloud infrastructure.