#defender


Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities

May 21, 2026 // 14:00

Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild. The former, tracked as […]

Microsoft warns of new Defender zero-days exploited in attacks

May 21, 2026 // 10:56

On Wednesday, Microsoft started rolling out security patches for two Defender vulnerabilities that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. The first one, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, […]

Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha

May 4, 2026 // 00:17

Microsoft Defender is detecting legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha, resulting in widespread false-positive alerts, and in some cases, removing certificates from Windows. According to cybersecurity expert […]

Three Microsoft Defender Zero-Days Actively Exploited; Two Still Unpatched

Apr 17, 2026 // 16:24

Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain elevated privileges in compromised systems. The activity […]

New Microsoft Defender “RedSun” zero-day PoC grants SYSTEM privileges

Apr 17, 2026 // 01:17

A researcher known as “Chaotic Eclipse” has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a second Microsoft Defender zero-day, dubbed “RedSun,” in the past two weeks, protesting […]

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Defender 0-Day, SonicWall Brute-Force, 17-Year-Old Excel RCE and 15 More Stories

Apr 16, 2026 // 16:10

You know that feeling when you open your feed on a Thursday morning and it’s just… a lot? Yeah. This week delivered. We’ve got hackers getting creative in […]