BlueHammer abuses Windows Defender's update process to gain SYSTEM access
BullsEye0
26 points
9 comments
April 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
smcin
Interesting but your site renders very badly on mobile; I have to scroll down through four screenfuls of ads or blank padding before I see a single paragraph of article, then more blank page. It is visually indistinguishable from an adfarm. Could you fix that?
zx8080
Breaking text selection is a VERY user-hostile web development trick. Thank you, seriously.
dist-epoch
If native code is running on your Windows (as opposed to JavaScript in the browser sandbox), you've already lost. It can steal your cookies and browser saved passwords, it can upload your photos or delete them. Privilege escalation to SYSTEM is the least of your worries.
PeterWhittaker
Site renders great for me, iOS Safari with blockers; text selection works fine. Yeah, I know, karma hit coming, but the other comments are so counter to my experience (I quite like the page and content) that I could not not comment.