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Everything Everywhere All At Once: The 2023 Active Adversary Report for Business Leaders

April 25, 2023 admin active adversary playbook, CoinMiner, conti, data breach, exfiltration, extortion, Featured, Incident Response, loader, lockbit, ransomware, sophos x-ops, threat research, web shells

Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 10:00:03 +0000

A deep dive into over 150 incident-response cases reveals both attackers and defenders picking up the pace

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This Week in Security News: Medical Malware and Monitor Hacks

April 18, 2019 admin Business Email Compromise, CoinMiner, Current News, EternalBlue, hacking, malware, Security

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:00:42 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how baby monitors may be susceptible to hacking. Also, learn about a medical flaw that enables hackers to hide malware. Read on: Is Your Baby Monitor…

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Microsoft Security

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

Microsoft Security

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

March 13, 2018 admin behavior monitoring, code injection, CoinMiner, cryptocurrency mining, cybersecurity, Electroneum, machine learning, MediaGet, Namecoin, smoke loader, Windows 10, Windows 10 S, Windows Defender ATP, Windows Defender AV

Credit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:27:06 +0000

On March 7, we reported that a massive Dofoil campaign attempted to install malicious cryptocurrency miners on hundreds of thousands of computers. Windows Defender Antivirus, with its behavior monitoring, machine learning technologies, and layered approach to security detected and blocked the attack within milliseconds.Windows 10 S, a special configuration of Windows 10 providing Microsoft-verified security,

Security Sophos

Cryptominers on Google Play: how Sophos protects customers

February 1, 2018 admin Android, coinhive, CoinMiner, cryptocurrency, cryptomining, Google Play, smartphones, SophosLabs

Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:38:24 +0000

SophosLabs has discovered a new, worrisome dimension to the trend of attackers targeting Android mobile users for cryptocurrency mining<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/cdLYcpn6-80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Microsoft Security

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…