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Title: Microsoft Defender Thwarts Large-Scale Akira Ransomware Attack
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Microsoft Defender Thwarts Large-Scale Akira Ransomware Attack

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: Microsoft Defender Thwarts Large-Scale Akira Ransomware Attack (https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/microsoft-defender-thwarts-akira.html)