Microsoft Defender Reports Global Surge in Trojan.Win32/Surgent Malware Alerts: What Security Teams Must Do Now
Microsoft Defender users saw a flood of weekend alerts for Trojan.Win32/Surgent, a late-breaking Windows malware variant with data exfiltration and persistence capabilities. By Monday morning, many SOCs were staring at wall-to-wall detections, triage queues spiking, and a simple question from leadership: is this real, how bad is it, and what are we doing about it?…