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Stopping attacks against on-premises Exchange Server and SharePoint Server with AMSI 

Exchange Server and SharePoint Server are business-critical assets and considered crown-jewels for many organizations, making them attractive targets for attacks. To help customers protect their environments and respond to these attacks, Exchange Server and SharePoint Server integrated Windows Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), providing an essential layer of protection by preventing harmful web requests from reaching backend endpoints. The blog outlines several attacks prevented by AMSI integration and highlights recent enhancements. The blog also provides protection and mitigation guidance and how defenders can respond.

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Exploitation of CLFS zero-day leads to ransomware activity 

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) have discovered post-compromise exploitation of a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) against a small number of targets. Microsoft released security updates to address the vulnerability, tracked as CVE 2025-29824, on April 8, 2025.

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Threat actors leverage tax season to deploy tax-themed phishing campaigns 

As Tax Day approaches in the United States on April 15, Microsoft has detected several tax-themed phishing campaigns employing various tactics. These campaigns use malicious hyperlinks and attachments to deliver credential phishing and malware including RaccoonO365, AHKBot, Latrodectus, BruteRatel C4 (BRc4), and Remcos.

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Analyzing open-source bootloaders: Finding vulnerabilities faster with AI 

Using Microsoft Security Copilot to expedite the discovery process, Microsoft has uncovered several vulnerabilities in multiple open-source bootloaders impacting all operating systems relying on Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot. Through a series of prompts, we identified and refined security issues, ultimately uncovering an exploitable integer overflow vulnerability in the GRUB2, U-boot, and Barebox bootloaders.