A security researcher frustrated with Microsoft has released the BlueHammer Windows zero-day exploit, telling the company, “I'm not explaining how this works.” ...

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

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

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 ...

A cyber security expert that goes by the name Nightmare-Eclipse attempted to disclose three zero day exploits to Microsoft, but the first attempt went so poorly, he elected to release it into the wild ...

A new wave of attacks by the DarkGate malware operation exploits a now-fixed Windows Defender SmartScreen vulnerability to bypass security checks and automatically install fake software installers.

Over a decade ago, Microsoft added support for a key malware mitigation technique that makes it harder for rogue applications to predict which code will be loaded into specific target addresses. This ...