Microsoft Defender tags Office updates as ransomware activity
https://nu.federati.net/url/285407

>Windows admins were hit today by a wave of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint false positives where Office updates were tagged as malicious in alerts pointing to ransomware behavior detected on their systems.
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>According to Windows system admins reports [1, 2, 3, 4], this started happening several hours ago and, in some cases, it led to a "downpour of ransomware alerts."
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>Following the surge of reports, Microsoft confirmed the Office updates were mistakenly marked as ransomware activity due to false positives.
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Seems to me that a monthly fee is a ransom..