As Microsoft hardens its defenses with tools such as Control Flow Guard, researchers at Endgame are preparing for the reality of Counterfeit Object-Oriented Programming attacks to move from theoretical to real.

Here are the exploit kits to watch for over the next three to six months.

Microsoft is bringing virtualization to its Edge browser with a security tool called Windows Defender Application Guard. The technology, announced this week at Microsoft’s 2016 Ignite conference in Atlanta, takes a virtualization-based approach to isolating browser-based attacks from the internet. Windows Defender Application Guard will be exclusive to enterprise versions of Windows 10 and will...