Microsoft says Windows Defender saved half a million PCs from crypto-mining malware
According to Microsoft, Windows 10’s built-in antivirus software, Windows Defender, protected a malware epidemic that struck almost 500,000 PCs this week. Just before midday on March 6, Windows Defender blocked 80,000 suspected attacks by a new group of trojans. They had never been seen before and weren’t yet in Microsoft’s threat database, but were identified …