Researcher Released Windows Defender 0-Day Exploit Code, Allowing Attackers to Gain Full Access

A security researcher operating under the alias Chaotic Eclipse (@ChaoticEclipse0) has publicly dropped a working zero-day local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit for Windows, dubbed BlueHammer, along with full proof-of-concept (PoC) source code on GitHub. The disclosure was confirmed by vulnerability researcher Will Dormann, who noted that the exploit works and that Microsoft’s own security response process may have directly […]

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