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New AI Malware PoC Reliably Evades Microsoft Defender

A soon-to-be-released security evasion tool will help red teamers and hackers consistently bypass Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. But at this year's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Kyle Avery, ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Defender no longer flags Tor Browser as malware

Recent versions of the TorBrowser, specifically because of the updated tor.exe file it contained, were being incorrectly flagged as potential threats by Windows Defender. Users were alerted to a ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers used new Windows Defender zero-day to drop DarkMe malware

Microsoft has patched today a Windows Defender SmartScreen zero-day exploited in the wild by a financially motivated threat group to deploy the DarkMe remote access trojan (RAT). The hacking group ...
BGR

Microsoft's Autonomous AI Agent Might Detect Malware Without Human Assistance

The arrival of generative AI software like ChatGPT prompted immediate speculation that hackers would use those programs to create and fine-tune malware attacks. Products like ChatGPT and Gemini might ...