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Microsoft pushed out-of-band patches on May 21, 2026, for two actively exploited Windows Defender zero-days — one that lets a ...

Microsoft patched two actively exploited Defender zero-days affecting Windows systems and security components.

Although the team with Microsoft moved swiftly to patch the BlueHammer vulnerability, other exploits still threaten Microsoft Defender and Windows users. No less than ...

Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active ...

While there weren’t any genuine zero-day vulnerabilities to patch in May’s Patch Tuesday update, the fallout since then has ...

Threat actors are using three publicly available proof-of-concept exploits to attack Microsoft Defender and turn the security platform's primary cleanup and protection functions against organizations ...

YellowKey, GreenPlasma, and MiniPlasma add to growing list of vulns a security researcher has disclosed over the past 6 weeks ...

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Windows Defender has several security settings, including some you need to switch on to get the utmost protection. Here's why.

Hackers have broken into at least one organization using Windows vulnerabilities published online by a disgruntled security researcher over the last two weeks, according to a cybersecurity firm. On ...

GitHub has banned the security researcher Nightmare-Eclipse for publicly releasing unpatched Windows zero-day exploits.