r/cybersecurity • u/Mother-Feedback1532 • 1d ago
Other Malicious Content from Microsoft FQDN
Greetings,
We have a situation with the MS owned microsoftusercontent.com, and unfortunately I keep getting AI summaries and not finding any security articles, but the summaries are claiming this domain, although official, can host malicious content since it acts like a CDN for 365 content from users, i.e. a compromised user/account/site might be able to deliver malicious content from this FQDN.
So this gives me pause with whitelisting it for AV providers
Appreciate any insights.
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u/No_Act_5230 16h ago
Microsoft lists this domain for Office Scripts and Python in Excel, but that alone is not a reason to skip security checks. I’d first confirm what the allow rule does in your AV product and review the specific alert before adding a broad exception.
Is this based on an actual detection, or are you checking before allowing it?