The new Vulnerable and Malicious Driver Reporting Center is essentially a web form that allows users to download a copy of a suspicious driver, which will then be analysed by Microsoft’s automated scanner.

The fact is that in recent years, malicious drivers are increasingly used by major APTs and other cybercriminals. Most often, cybercriminals abuse vulnerabilities in old and unpatched drivers, or even deliberately downgrade and install older drivers into the system (for example, to gain administrator rights on a compromised [...]