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#7 The Hacker News general May 14, 2026 at 09:25 UTC

Windows Zero-Days Expose BitLocker Bypasses And CTFMON Privilege Escalation

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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Researcher 'Chaotic Eclipse' publicly dropped two unpatched Windows zero-days: YellowKey, a BitLocker bypass requiring physical access, and GreenPlasma, a privilege escalation flaw in the Windows Collaborative Translation Framework (CTFMON) that elevates to SYSTEM. Microsoft is investigating both, and this follows the same researcher's prior disclosure of three Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities, with no patches yet available.

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