{"id":53,"date":"2026-04-25T23:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/?p=53"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:46:08","slug":"windows-defender-has-a-is-hackable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/archives\/53","title":{"rendered":"Windows Defender Anti-Virus Is The Weakest Link"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on\">Some days I wonder if the tech world is being run by sleep\u2011deprived interns and malfunctioning vending machines. Case in point: a GitHub project called <em>RedSun<\/em>, where a researcher \u2014 hiding behind the name \u201cNightmare\u2011Eclipse,\u201d naturally \u2014 demonstrates a flaw in Microsoft Defender so absurd it would be funny if it weren\u2019t real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Nightmare-Eclipse\/RedSun\">https:\/\/github.com\/Nightmare-Eclipse\/RedSun<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on\">Defender, the very program meant to protect your computer, can apparently be tricked into <em>restoring<\/em> malicious files instead of removing them. Yes, restoring them. Like a confused librarian putting a stolen book back on the shelf with a smile. And with the right setup, this glitch can be used to overwrite system files and gain elevated privileges. Terrific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on\">The GitHub page lays out the proof\u2011of\u2011concept, complete with code and a screenshot, as if to say, \u201cNo, really, this is happening.\u201d Meanwhile, Microsoft \u2014 a company with more money than some countries \u2014 is once again caught flat\u2011footed while independent researchers point out the obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ext-animate--on\">If this is the state of cybersecurity, maybe we were better off when the worst thing a computer could do was crash during a card game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I wonder if the tech world is being run by sleep\u2011deprived interns and malfunctioning vending machines. Case in point: a GitHub project called..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massiverainfall.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}