Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection – Computer Security Articles

Windows Defender ATP thwarts Operation WilySupply software supply chain cyberattack

May 4, 2017 admin Advanced persistent threats, alert timelines, Altair Technologies EvLog, Antimalware research for IT pros and enthusiasts, Cyberattack, ESTsoft ALZip, Evil Grade, finance, financials, high technology, Kerberoast, MAPP, Meterpreter, Mimikatz, MSRC, Operation WilySupply, pen-testing tools, Powershell, process trees, research, Rivit, SimDisk, software supply chain, ue.exe, update channel, updater, WDATP, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Windows Defender ATP

Credit to Author: msft-mmpc| Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 16:29:18 +0000

Several weeks ago, the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Windows Defender ATP) research team noticed security alerts that demonstrated an intriguing attack pattern. These early alerts uncovered a well-planned, finely orchestrated cyberattack that targeted several high-profile technology and financial organizations. An unknown attacker was taking advantage of a silent yet effective attack vector: the compromised…

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Detecting and mitigating elevation-of-privilege exploit for CVE-2017-0005

March 27, 2017 admin Advanced persistent threats, Antimalware research for IT pros and enthusiasts, Coreinfo, Creators Update, CVE-2017-005, Device Guard, EoP, PALETTE, Product features and announcements, SMEP, virtualization-based security, Windows 10, Windows 10 Creators Update, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Windows Defender ATP, zero-day exploits, ZIRCONIUM

Credit to Author: msft-mmpc| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:00:01 +0000

On March 14, 2017, Microsoft released security bulletin MS17-013 to address CVE-2017-0005, a vulnerability in the Windows Win32k component that could potentially allow elevation of privileges. A report from a trusted partner identified a zero-day exploit for this vulnerability. The exploit targeted older versions of Windows and allowed attackers to elevate process privileges on these platforms. In this article, we…

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Uncovering cross-process injection with Windows Defender ATP

March 8, 2017 admin Advanced persistent threats, Antimalware research for IT pros and enthusiasts, APTs, bitcoin, CoinMiner, Creators Update, cross-process injection, Exploits, Fynloski RAT, Gatak, GOLD activity group, in-memory attacks, post-breach detection, public preview, Windows 10, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Windows Defender ATP, zero-day exploits

Credit to Author: msft-mmpc| Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 06:16:01 +0000

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Windows Defender ATP) is a post-breach solution that alerts security operations (SecOps) personnel about hostile activity. As the nature of attacks evolve, Windows Defender ATP must advance so that it continues to help SecOps personnel uncover and address the attacks. With increasing security investments from Microsoft—read how Windows 10 continues to raise…