During the last few weeks of October, Microsoft is promoting digital security efforts as part of its observance of National Cyber Security Awareness Month. security Awareness Month or NCSAM)).
Η company has announced new initiatives to promote cyber awareness, it has revealed Zero Trust Deployment Center, released one Adversarial ML Threat Matrix and started a pretty successful attack against the malicious botnet Trickbot.
Now h company δήλωσε ότι έχει αναπτύξει έναν νέο αλγόριθμο βασισμένο στη engineering εκμάθηση που ανιχνεύει επιθέσεις ψεκασμού κωδικών access(password spray attacks) with significantly improved performance from its previous mechanism.
For those not in the know, a password spray attack is a relatively crude and common form of cyberattack in which a malicious user it attacks thousands of IPs with a few commonly used passwords instead of trying multiple passwords on a single user.
Although the success rate per account is not impressive enough, the attack is very difficult to detect.
To combat password spraying attacks, Microsoft created a mechanism that recognizes "basic system failure in ... worldwide traffic" and alerts organizations at risk. Today the company has improved this mechanism by training a new machine learning algorithm that uses features such as IP reputation, unknown properties connectionand other account discrepancies to detect when someone is being attacked by password spraying.
Microsoft claims that its new model has a 100% increase in recall compared to the previous heuristic algorithm. This means that it detects twice the number of compromised accounts. In addition, it has 98% accuracy, which means that if the model claims that an account has been hacked by a password, then it is almost certainly true.
The new model will soon be available to Azure AD Identity Protection customers, who will be able to use it on the portal and the APIs they use to protect their identity.