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November 8, 2018

12 min read

Attack uses malicious InPage document and outdated VLC media player to give attackers backdoor access to targets

Our analysis of a targeted attack that used a language-specific word processor shows why it’s important to understand and protect against small-scale and localized attacks as well as broad-scale malware campaigns.
October 26, 2018

6 min read

Windows Defender Antivirus can now run in a sandbox

Windows Defender Antivirus has hit a new milestone: the built-in antivirus capabilities on Windows can now run within a sandbox.
September 6, 2018

6 min read

Small businesses targeted by highly localized Ursnif campaign

In social engineering attacks, is less really more? A new malware campaign puts that to the test by targeting home users and small businesses in specific US cities.
July 11, 2018

11 min read

Hawkeye Keylogger – Reborn v8: An in-depth campaign analysis

Hawkeye Keylogger is an info-stealing malware that’s being sold as malware-as-a-service.
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April 20, 2018

5 min read

Teaming up in the war on tech support scams

Beyond customer education, the scale and complexity of tech support scams require cooperation and broad partnerships across the industry.
April 4, 2018

8 min read

Hunting down Dofoil with Windows Defender ATP

Dofoil is a sophisticated threat that attempted to install coin miner malware on hundreds of thousands of computers in March, 2018.
March 13, 2018

7 min read

Poisoned peer-to-peer app kicked off Dofoil coin miner outbreak

On March 7, we reported that a massive Dofoil campaign attempted to install malicious cryptocurrency miners on hundreds of thousands of computers.
March 13, 2018

8 min read

Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners

The surge in Bitcoin prices has driven widescale interest in cryptocurrencies.
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March 7, 2018

5 min read

Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign

Update: Further analysis of this campaign points to a poisoned update for a peer-to-peer (P2P) application.
March 1, 2018

20 min read

FinFisher exposed: A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (Office 365 ATP) blocked many notable zero-day exploits in 2017.
January 30, 2018

2 min read

Protecting customers from being intimidated into making an unnecessary purchase

There has been an increase in free versions of programs that purport to scan computers for various errors, and then use alarming, coercive messages to scare customers into buying a premium version of the same program.
January 24, 2018

7 min read

Now you see me: Exposing fileless malware

Attackers are determined to circumvent security defenses using increasingly sophisticated techniques.