Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Cloud and workloads

Alerts Containers

In brief

The documentation now lists Malware detection and states that it detects malware running in the container.

What Defender admins need to know

Administrators can use this entry when reviewing and interpreting container security alerts.

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Documentation change

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  • DNS-based detections: Identifies suspicious DNS activity generated by running containers, such as communication with known malicious domains.

  • Malware detection: Detects malware running in the container.

Kubernetes alerts simulation tool

Defender for Containers provides an open-source, Python-based CLI tool that simulates Kubernetes attack scenarios and helps you verify that Kubernetes security alerts are generated.