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Microsoft Defender 'RoguePlanet' Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Privileges

  • BeauHD--Slashdot.org
  • published date: 2026-06-10 23:00:00 UTC

A researcher using the name Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit called "RoguePlanet," which reportedly works on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 systems and can spawn a command prompt with SYSTEM privileges through a Defend…

The researcher shared a proof-of-concept exploit on Tuesday afternoon in a self-hosted Git repository after saying that GitHub and GitLab repositories hosting their exploits had previously been remov… [+1884 chars]