Microsoft scrambles to patch a Defender security flaw called RoguePlanet (opens in new tab)

A week ago, the security researcher who goes by “Nightmare Eclipse” published information about The vulnerability exists in fully patched Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices and allows attackers to generate command prompts with system privileges via a race condition in Microsoft Defender. The security expert published a proof-of-concept exploit in a self-hosted Git repository and claimed that Microsoft had previously targeted and removed its exploit-hosting repositories on GitHub and GitLab. Th...