BlueHammer abuses Windows Defender's update process to gain SYSTEM access

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Windows Defender Is Being Used to Hack Windows

A Windows zero-day called BlueHammer exploits Defender's own update process to give attackers full SYSTEM access. The exploit code is public and unpatched.

^{Bulls Eye}

Recently this popped up, #Bluehammer a #Windows exploit that exploits Windows Defender for a local privilege elevation

From user to system level..

It triggers a Defender scan and locks that after, so it can access a certain database that is been backed up while Defender scans to gain system level access

GitHub now gives a warning for the repo it seems:
github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/B…

Just be careful

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