All modern Windows PCs come with Microsoft Defender built in. For the unaware, this tool is Windows’ native antivirus. Over time, it has matured into a reliable security tool capable of blocking a ...

Enhanced phishing protection in Microsoft Defender is a security feature designed to guard against phishing attacks that attempt to steal users’ personal or login information. It works by actively ...

In a proof-of-concept, a security researcher demonstrated how the Windows Security Center API can be used to block the scans by Microsoft’s built-in antivirus tool. Windows Defender can be tricked ...

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

In announcing new Microsoft Security Copilot agents and other new protections for AI, the company revealed upcoming Defender coverage for the Google Cloud Platform. Microsoft Defender was created for ...

This guide shows configure and deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to better protect your company from cyber threats. By adding your devices, you can find and stop threats faster and keep your ...

Microsoft is adding agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its Security Copilot, enabling the digital assistant to offload and automate specific processes now performed by security teams ...

There is (or was) a vulnerability in Windows Defender, but you don't have to worry about it. That's the short version. The longer version, for those who are interested, is that Microsoft detected a ...

Endor Labs today announced that Microsoft has natively integrated its advanced SCA capabilities within Microsoft Defender for Cloud, a leading Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).

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