Office 365: A Petri Dish for Malware?
October 18, 2021
Microsoft has a PR problem? Microsoft may have other issues as well, but “Infosec Expert Beaumont Slams Microsoft Over Hosting Malware for Years” seems like a semi-negative write up. Is the situation as dire as the article suggests? I don’t know, but it seems as if it is not what you would call:
- A ringing endorsement for Microsoft security
- An illustration of Microsoft’s approach to Office 365
The write up asserts:
An overwhelming majority of ransomware attacks only Windows, with an analysis by staff of the Google-owned VirusTotal database last Thursday showing that 95% of 80 million samples analysed — all the way back to January 2020 — were aimed at Windows.
How has Microsoft responded? The write up quotes infosec expert Beaumont as saying:
Before the train of MS employees arrive saying ‘just report it’, try getting them and future ones taken down yourselves. I did. It was a disaster.
The write up, which is a mish mash of quotes and tweets, contains a number of interesting allegedly true factoids.
True? Maybe. Not-so-great PR for the company that follows China’s content guidelines? Sure seems like it.
Stephen E Arnold, October 18, 2021
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