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Microsoft Defender's Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot

Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender's own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2, with no software flaw exploited and no driver imported from outside the machine. The driver, BTR.sys (Boot Time Removal Tool), is a

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By info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

21 August 2026|1 min read|The Hacker News
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Microsoft Defender's Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot
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