{"id":9503,"date":"2026-08-21T17:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/microsoft-defenders-own-driver-can-be-weaponized-to-delete-security-software-at-boot\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:12:20","slug":"microsoft-defenders-own-driver-can-be-weaponized-to-delete-security-software-at-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/microsoft-defenders-own-driver-can-be-weaponized-to-delete-security-software-at-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Defender&#8217;s Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCheck Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, BTR.sys (Boot Time Removal Tool), is a\u00a0Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, BTR.sys (Boot Time Removal Tool), is a\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCheck Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender&#8217;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&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/microsoft-defenders-own-driver-can-be-weaponized-to-delete-security-software-at-boot\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Defender&#8217;s Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}