Microsoft Defender flags legitimate Google search links as malicious
A Defender for Office 365 regression is misclassifying legitimate Google search URLs as malicious, potentially swamping SOC queues with false positives during triage.
Summary written by editorial AI · Source link below
Microsoft is investigating an issue causing the Defender for Office 365 security software to mistakenly block access to legitimate Google search links. [...]
Editorial Analysis
Mass false positives from a core email-security gateway erode user trust and consume SOC bandwidth that should be spent on real threats.
Check your Defender for Office 365 tenant for Google-link false positives and consider a temporary safe-sender override until Microsoft resolves the issue.
Forward-looking interpretation drafted by editorial AI under human review — not a reproduction of the source. See methodology.
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