Microsoft Defender flags legitimate URLs as harmful, causing concern among users

Microsoft Defender flags legitimate URLs as harmful, causing concern among users

“We’re reviewing service monitoring telemetry to isolate the root cause and develop a remediation plan,” Microsoft said. “Impact is specific to any admin served through the affected infrastructure.”

After a few hours, Microsoft released another update stating that the false positive issue had been addressed. The problem was reportedly caused by recent additions to the SafeLinks feature, which were subsequently reverted to fix the issue.