# Discourse updates - Microsoft Defender reports detection of Wacatac malware

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 20, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-updates-microsoft-defender-reports-detection-of-wacatac-malware/348004 "2025-01-20T11:50:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![MiaZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MiaZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MiaZ)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-updates-microsoft-defender-reports-detection-of-wacatac-malware/348004/8 "2025-02-04T13:44:12Z")

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As promised, this is the current feedback from Microsoft support:

- Mark files as clean in Microsoft Defender for Cloud so to resolve alert → we did this, but we don´t see it as contributing to issue resolution since each time different file is falsely reported
- Suppress entire alert in Microsoft Defender for Cloud → we didn´t want to do this so not to miss out on possible actual threats in the future
- Submit idea for improvement of Defender scanning algorithm and/or internal database → we did this, waiting for feedback: [Community](https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/idea/e86e4705-d7e2-ef11-b542-00224854717c)

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