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Hunting down Dofoil with Windows Defender ATP

April 4, 2018 admin Advanced hunting, CoinMiner, cryptocurrency mining, cybersecurity, Dofoil, malware research, Namecoin, process hollowing, windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 S, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Defender ATP, Windows Defender AV, Windows Defender Exploit Guard

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:00:18 +0000

Dofoil is a sophisticated threat that attempted to install coin miner malware on hundreds of thousands of computers in March, 2018. In previous blog posts we detailed how behavior monitoring and machine learning in Windows Defender AV protected customers from a massive Dofoil outbreak that we traced back to a software update poisoning campaign several