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Windows Defender fixed 12-year-old vulnerability
Microsoft Defender Antivirus (formerly just Windows Defender) has fixed an old privilege escalation vulnerability. Interestingly, this bug appeared in the code about 12 years ago and affected all versions of Defender for Windows 7 and higher released after 2009.

The vulnerability, discovered by SentinelOne experts in November last year, was identified as CVE-2021-24092. It also spreads to other Microsoft security products, including Microsoft Endpoint Protection, Microsoft Security Essentials, and Microsoft System Centre Endpoint Protection.

The problem was found in the BTR.sys driver (aka Boot Time Removal Tool), which is used to remove files and registry entries created by [...]

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