Microsoft announced today that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's detection and response (EDR) capabilities are now generally available on Linux servers. EDR capabilities allow admins and security ...

For more than a year, a Russian-speaking threat actor targeted human resource (HR) departments with malware that delivers a new EDR killer named BlackSanta.

Now, this is not Microsoft Defender for the Linux desktop. Some miracles haven't happened yet. In this version of Defender, its No. 1 job is to protect Linux servers from server and network threats.