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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 ...

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

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

A disgruntled security researcher this week publicly disclosed two zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows that enable BitLocker ...

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.

Windows remains one of the most targeted systems by threat actors by volume, according to recent statistics from AV-TEST, ...