Vulnerabilities Nightmare Eclipse Drops New Microsoft Defender Exploit After Revealing Identity Abdelhamid Naceri, a former Microsoft Germany employee, is the exploit leaker Nightmare Eclipse, aka Chaotic Eclipse. Eduard KovacsSeptember 22, 2026
Endpoint Security New ‘ShieldCrash’ Zero-Day Exploit Targets Microsoft Defender The exploit provides full System privileges on Windows machines running the September 2026 patches. Ionut ArghireSeptember 10, 2026
Endpoint Security Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘HardBreacher’ Kaspersky Product Exploit Kaspersky told SecurityWeek that it patched the vulnerability affecting its Endpoint Security product. Eduard KovacsAugust 31, 2026
Vulnerabilities Nightmare Eclipse Drops Windows Zero-Day Exploit ‘ShieldBreak’ Dropped on Patch Tuesday, the exploit allows any user to spawn a shell with System privileges. Ionut ArghireAugust 13, 2026
Vulnerabilities Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘LegacyHive’ Windows Zero-Day The researcher stripped the proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit to prevent immediate exploitation of the vulnerability. Ionut ArghireJuly 16, 2026
Vulnerabilities Microsoft Patches Defender ‘RoguePlanet’ Vulnerability The privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-50656 has been patched with a Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update. Eduard KovacsJuly 9, 2026
Vulnerabilities Microsoft Working on Patch for ‘RoguePlanet’ Zero-Day The public PoC code exploits a race condition in Microsoft Defender to spawn a command prompt with System privileges. Ionut ArghireJune 17, 2026
Endpoint Security ‘GreatXML’ Zero-Day Exploit Bypasses BitLocker The PoC exploits Microsoft Defender’s offline scan to spawn a SYSTEM shell when rebooting in Recovery Mode. Ionut ArghireJune 11, 2026
Vulnerabilities New Windows Zero-Day Exploit ‘RoguePlanet’ Released Exploiting a race condition in Microsoft Defender, the exploit leads to local privilege escalation to SYSTEM. Ionut ArghireJune 10, 2026
Vulnerabilities Researcher Drops YellowKey, GreenPlasma Windows Zero-Days YellowKey is a BitLocker bypass that requires physical access. GreenPlasma enables elevation of privileges to System. Ionut ArghireMay 14, 2026