Windows Defender Pretender Attack
Microsoft has patched nearly 100 vulnerabilities in April 2023, and one among them was a security feature bypass vulnerability that allows an unprivileged user to hijack Windows Defender and use…
Windows Defender Catches legitimate Apps as Malicious
Microsoft has fixed a bug in the Windows Defender that identified the Chromium browser engine and/or Electron JavaScript framework as Hive ransomware and recommended removal. Numerous social media and forum…
Windows Defender Now Defends Home Network
Microsoft Defender for Windows now allowing home network admins to deploy Android, iOS, and Mac clients to monitor antivirus, phishing, compromised passwords, and identity theft alerts from a single security…
Defender ATP Now Defends Removable Storage and Printers
Due to the ongoing pandemic, adhoc work culture has been widely followed. Use of devices such as unmanaged printers and removable devices prone to extend the attack surface To mitigate…
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Defender false positives chrome update
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint began flagging yesterday’s Google Chrome update as malicious, alarming users and admins and creating confusion among them. Hey @msftsecresponse - Seeing lots of Defender ATP alerts this morning…
Defender hijacks host files now ..
The native antivirus client of the Windows 10 operating system, Microsoft Defender, has started to flag the hosts file on the system as malicious if it contains redirects for certain…
Windows Defender ! Is that good ?
We have many AV vendors evolving in the market. each has there own capability , mechanism while dealing with threats and Vulnerabilities. Here we have discussed about Windows defender. Is…