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Aug 21, 2026Microsoft Defender's Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot
Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender's own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems…
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