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BTR Reforged: Weaponizing Defender’s Remediation Driver as a Kernel Operation Primitive

Research by: Jiří Vinopal (@vinopaljiri) Abstract What if a trusted security component could be repurposed into an attacker-controlled kernel primitive? What if a signed Microsoft remediation driver could be instructed to execute arbitrary file and registry operations from Ring 0 – without exploits, vulnerabilities, or memory corruption? In this publication, we present the first full […] The post appeared first on . BTR Reforged: Weaponizing Defender’s Remediation Driver as a Kernel Operation Primitive Check Point Research