False Positive
Microsoft Defender mistakenly flags SQL Server as end-of-life
Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service alert seen by GeekFeed, this bug has been impacting Microsoft Defender XDR customers with SQL Server 2017 and 2019 since at least Wednesday morning. While Defender flagged […]
Microsoft Defender bug triggers erroneous BIOS update alerts
Microsoft is working to resolve a bug that causes Defender for Endpoint to incorrectly tag some devices’ BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) firmware as outdated, prompting users to update it. In a service alert seen by GeekFeed, Redmond said that this known issue affects Dell devices and is caused by a Defender for Endpoint logic bug. “Microsoft have identified […]
Microsoft: Anti-spam bug blocks links in Exchange Online, Teams
Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes an anti-spam service to mistakenly block Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams users from opening URLs and quarantine some of their emails. In a service alert seen by GeekFeed, the company stated that the issue is caused by the anti-spam engine incorrectly tagging URLs contained within other URLs […]
Microsoft fixes Exchange Online bug flagging Gmail emails as spam
Microsoft has resolved an issue with a machine learning model that mistakenly flagged emails from Gmail accounts as spam in Exchange Online. Tracked as EX1064599 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, the issue started impacting users on April 25 at 09:24 UTC, automatically moving emails erroneously tagged as malicious to the junk folder. “We’ve identified that our […]
Microsoft fixes machine learning bug flagging Adobe emails as spam
Microsoft says it mitigated a known issue in one of its machine learning (ML) models that mistakenly flagged Adobe emails in Exchange Online as spam. As the company revealed in an advisory on the Microsoft 365 admin center tagged as EX1061430, users had issues accessing alerts for Adobe URLs starting April 22 at 09:24 UTC while […]
Microsoft: Exchange Online bug mistakenly quarantines user emails
Microsoft is investigating an Exchange Online bug causing anti-spam systems to mistakenly quarantine some users’ emails. According to a new incident report added to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, the email issues started almost five hours ago, at 10:11 UTC. While the company has yet to share what regions are impacted, this Exchange Online incident has been tagged as a critical […]
Microsoft: Exchange Online mistakenly tags emails as malware
Microsoft is investigating an Exchange Online false positive issue causing emails containing images to be wrongly tagged as malicious and sent to quarantine. “Users’ email messages containing images may be incorrectly flagged as malware and quarantined,” Microsoft said in a service alert posted on the Microsoft 365 admin center two hours ago. “We’re reviewing service monitoring telemetry […]