Automatic attack disruption in Microsoft Defender XDR and containing users during Human-operated Attacks
Microsoft announced last year a new feature with the name; Automatic Attack Disruption in Defender XDR (Microsoft 365 Defender). Since October last year, Microsoft expanded the Automatic attack disruption feature with the support of human-operated attacks and the ability of…
Pivot via OAuth applications across tenants and how to protect/detect with Microsoft technology? (Midnight blizzard)
Recently threat actors like Midnight Blizzard use the OAuth applications in tenants that they can misuse for malicious activity. Actors use compromised user accounts to create/ modify and grant permissions to OAuth applications in tenants and move across test and…
How to use deception in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint/ Defender XDR
Microsoft Defender XDR is expanding in the full attack stage. With the new Deception capability in Microsoft Defender XDR, it is possible to detect attackers early in the kill chain and disrupt advanced attacks. Deception is a new feature for…
How to use Automatic Attack Disruption in Microsoft 365 Defender (BEC, AiTM & HumOR)
Last year Microsoft announced a new feature called; Automatic attack disruption which uses correlated insights from the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and powerful AI models to stop sophisticated attack techniques while the attack is in progress. Automatic attack disruption supports the…
AiTM/ MFA phishing attacks in combination with “new” Microsoft protections (2024 edition)
Adversary-in-the-middle phishing attacks are still more common in use. Since the removal of basic authentication from Exchange Online more and more attackers are using more modern attacks like adversary-in-the-middle phishing, cookie theft, QR code phishing, and other used attacks. Last…
