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Microsoft Defender 'RoguePlanet' Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Privileges


A researcher using the name Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit called "RoguePlanet," which reportedly works on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 systems and can spawn a command prompt with SYSTEM privileges through a Defender race condition. The release came just ...

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