Making its debut in 2015, AMSI is a vendor-agnostic interface designed to integrate anti-malware products on a Windows machine and better protect end users, supporting features including scan ...

Malware that embeds a null character in its code can bypass security scans performed by the Anti-Malware Scan Interface (AMSI) on Windows 10 boxes.

A bug in the Windows 10 Anti-Malware Scan Interface causes the security apparatus to truncate its scans when encountering a null character. The bug was fixed in this month's Patch Tuesday.

Microsoft first extended support for its Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) to Office 365 client applications in 2018 to defend customers against attacks using VBA macros.