Microsoft feud escalates as researcher drops new Windows zero-day (opens in new tab)  🛡️Security Research

The long-running feud between Microsoft and security researcher Nightmare Eclipse has entered a new chapter. Eclipse, who has spent the past several months publicly releasing unpatched Windows vulnerabilities while sparring with Microsoft over vulnerability disclosure practices, has published exploit code for a new zero-day flaw dubbed RoguePlanet. The researcher said their exploit uses a race condition problem affecting Microsoft Defender, giving attackers less than a hundred percent odds at...