Those hoping to use nefarious websites like, er, Zoom are overrun by alerts. Redmond 'investigating'
Microsoft's at-times-glitchy Defender service is again causing headaches for IT admins by flagging legitimate URLs as malicious.that sites like Zoom and Google are being tagged as potentially dangerous, triggering a flood of alerts. To add to the problem, one netizen wrote that the Defender portal is"up and down," making it difficult to investigate the alerts.
"We just got two email alerts regarding a malicious link being clicked but when we try to browse the security portal, it errors out," a RedditorA system admin said that after getting two email alerts about a malicious link being clicked, they were unable to browse the security portal.reader told us:"Our organization has received hundreds of malicious URL alerts from Office 365 for zoom.us links. These false positives take us a long time to investigate.
"We're investigating an issue where legitimate URL links are being incorrectly marked as malicious by the Microsoft Defender service," Redmond wrote."Additionally, some of the alerts are not showing content as expected."A user noted that Microsoft in an admin center message said that admins"may be receiving an unexpected amount of high severity alert email message.
"The high severity alert emails refer to 'A potentially malicious URL click was detected,'" according to the note."Additionally, admins may be unable to view alert details using the 'View alerts' link in the emails.'"An hour after the first tweet, Redmond followed up, saying that"users are still able to access the legitimate URLs despite the false positive alerts.
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