Microsoft on Wednesday said that a user containment feature in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helped thwart a "large-scale remote encryption attempt" made by Akira ransomware actors targeting an unknown industrial organization in early June 2023.
The tech giant's threat intelligence team is tracking the operator as Storm-1567.
The attack leveraged devices that were not onboarded to Microsoft



Source: TheHackerNews
Source Link: https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/microsoft-defender-thwarts-akira.html