Security News > 2018 > April > They forked this one up: Microsoft modifies open-source code, blows hole in Windows Defender
2018-04-01 00:00
Rar! That's a scary bug A remote-code execution vulnerability in Windows Defender – a flaw that can be exploited by malicious .rar files to run malware on PCs – has been traced back to an open-source archiving tool Microsoft adopted for its own use.…
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