RoguePlanet Zero-Day Exposes Critical Race Condition in Microsoft Defender’s Privileged Engine
Microsoft confirmed active development of a patch for CVE-2026-50656, a zero-day elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Defender that allows attackers to gain SYSTEM access via a race condition in the Malware Protection Engine, affecting fully patched Windows 10 and 11 systems despite real-time protection being enabled. Read more