The newly disclosed Windows Defender flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-50656, could let attackers escalate privileges on fully ...

CISA says ransomware gangs are exploiting Microsoft Defender’s BlueHammer flaw, patched in April 2026 after zero-day reports.

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On April 2, 2026, a security researcher using the name Chaotic Eclipse published a blog post stating that they were "doing it again." Under this warning, a link to a GitHub account page for a user ...

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The leak online of exploit code for an apparent Windows zero-day flaw dubbed "BlueHammer" could be the sign of a larger issue that security researchers face when collaborating with Microsoft on ...

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 ...

Windows has come a long way from its wild west days, with multiple protections that guard against dangerous software. But attackers constantly try to evade those defenses—and recently succeeded with a ...

GitHub user Nightmare-Eclipse has just published two new vulnerabilities called YellowKey and GreenPlasma that affect Windows 11 systems. They were both released on May 12, the same day that Microsoft ...

You need a modified Windows RE, and it's unclear if it's possible to modify one already on the disk without another exploit. Step 3 in the list should be "enter the windows recovery environment, by ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical-severity Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) vulnerability with publicly available proof-of-concept exploit code. WSUS is ...