The Virus and threat protection page has Current ... On the downside, some features only work with Microsoft products and Defender’s scanning engine can put a big burden on the system.

Microsoft issued an emergency patch overnight in order to protect users from a ‘severe' remote-code execution flaw affecting Windows' Malware Protection Engine. The flaw had been described as ...

CVE-2021-1647 can affect Microsoft Malware Protection Engine versions from 1.1.17600.5 to 1.1.17700.4 running on Windows 10, Windows Server 2004 and Windows 7. Some security researchers believe ...

Microsoft’s CVP of customer security and trust, wrote in a blog post Saturday. “The malware is disguised as ransomware but, if activated by the attacker, would render the infected computer ...

The malware is engineered to connect to an adversary-controlled OneDrive account using hard-coded Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) credentials, using it as a C2 for fetching and executing ...