Cybernews

Disgruntled hacker drops second zero-day Windows Defender exploit just hours after Microsoft patches first one

A disgruntled researcher released a second zero-day Windows Defender exploit, dubbed RedSun, shortly after Microsoft patched ...

Microsoft's Security Response Center is being blamed for the zero-day BlueHammer exploit leak

A zero-day BlueHammer exploit was recently published on GitHub in response to alleged MSRC failures, and although Microsoft ...

Angry Hacker Drops Microsoft Zero-Day Exploit, 1 Billion Users Warned

A security researcher frustrated with Microsoft has released the BlueHammer Windows zero-day exploit, telling the company, “I ...
Windows Report

Windows BlueHammer Zero-Day Lets Attackers Gain SYSTEM Access

According to Bleeping Computer, the BlueHammer vulnerability is a Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) flaw that leverages a combination of time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) issues and path confusion ...
Bleeping Computer

Disgruntled researcher leaks “BlueHammer” Windows zero-day exploit

Exploit code has been released for an unpatched Windows privilege escalation flaw reported privately to Microsoft, allowing attackers to gain SYSTEM or elevated administrator permissions. Dubbed ...
CSO Online

Patch windows collapse as time-to-exploit accelerates

AI and the industrialization of cybercrime are helping attackers double the number of high- and critical-severity known ...
PC World

Security expert publishes Windows exploit after Microsoft went silent

PCWorld reports on the ‘BlueHammer’ zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to potentially take over Windows computers through privilege escalation. A frustrated security researcher published the ...