Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse has disclosed GreatXML, a new exploit that bypasses Windows BitLocker encryption by leveraging vulnerabilities in recovery partition XML files. The exploit was discovered accidentally in just four hours, following the researcher's recent publication of a Microsoft Defender exploit, highlighting potential weaknesses in Windows security mechanisms.
Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse and MSNightmare) has released a new Windows BitLocker bypass dubbed GreatXML, a day after they published an exploit for Microsoft Defender. "This was an accidental discovery, it took a total of 4 hours to find this," the researcher said in a post on Blogger. "If you ever attempted to use Windows Defender Offline Scan, you're
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