​Microsoft is working to resolve a bug that causes Defender for Endpoint to incorrectly tag some units’ BIOS (Primary Enter/Output System) firmware as outdated, prompting customers to replace it.
In a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, Redmond stated that this recognized concern impacts Dell units and is brought on by a Defender for Endpoint logic bug.
“Microsoft have recognized {that a} code bug within the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint logic that fetches vulnerabilities for Dell units is inflicting affect,” the corporate stated earlier right now.
“Your group is affected by this occasion, and a few customers receiving Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts for the BIOS model of their Dell units are impacted.”
Whereas the corporate has already developed a repair for this bug and is at present getting ready it for deployment, it has but to reveal the areas and the variety of prospects impacted by these ongoing Defender XDR points.
Right this moment, Microsoft engineers have additionally fastened black display screen crashes impacting macOS units that had been up to date after September 29, attributable to a impasse within the Apple enterprise safety framework that happens when a number of safety suppliers are listening to occasions.
Earlier this month, Redmond fastened one other false constructive that was inflicting an anti-spam service to erroneously block Microsoft Groups and Trade On-line customers from opening URLs.
Microsoft acknowledged on the time that the difficulty was brought on by the anti-spam engine incorrectly flagging URLs contained inside different URLs as doubtlessly malicious, which additionally resulted in some emails being quarantined.
For the reason that begin of the yr, it has additionally addressed machine-learning bugs that mistakenly flagged Adobe emails in Trade On-line as spam, one which brought on anti-spam methods to quarantine some Trade On-line customers’ emails incorrectly, and a 3rd that led to emails from Gmail accounts being tagged as spam in Trade On-line by mistake.
This can be a growing story…
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