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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 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 ...

CISA has added the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine and Microsoft Defender Antimalware Platform vulnerabilities to its KEV ...

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

Microsoft rushes to mitigate the new “YellowKey” flaw that may bypass BitLocker protections and expose encrypted Windows ...

Although the team with Microsoft moved swiftly to patch the BlueHammer vulnerability, other exploits still threaten Microsoft Defender and Windows users.

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 ...

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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 ...

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