- EternalDarkness or SMBGhost is the latest vulnerability affecting the Microsoft SMB protocol which was first reported in March 2020
- This is high-severity threat because SMB vulnerabilities very-often are quickly adopted by “wormified” malicious attacks. As-of publishing of this post, PoCs exist for DoS and local privilege escalation
- Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection stops the local privilege escalation 0-day attack without any additional configurations or updates. See the Demo below.
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