A couple of fresh malware campaigns in the past few days were halted by Windows Defender AV, whose cloud-based machine learning technologies detected and blocked #Hancitor and #Emotet malware runs at the onset.
The previously unknown #Hancitor and #Emotet variants, which were distributed via email, were flagged by various ML models. Our machine learning technologies combined results from multiple algorithms to correctly determine the malware.
#Hancitor is known for being a sophisticated malware that has been used in targeted attacks in the past and for using unusual APIs and memory injection techniques. #Emotet, on the other hand, is one of the most active banking malware today.
Some of the machine learning models that detected the new malware are predictions from multi-class deep neural networks that also detected and blocked the #BadRabbit ransomware outbreak last year. cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecur…
Intelligent systems like this in Windows Defender AV protect customers from malware outbreaks every day. In February, the same ML and AI technologies stopped a similar Emotet outbreak. cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecur…
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