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This worrying Microsoft BitLocker backdoor can grant full access to a locked drive

Chaotic Eclipse leaks two new Windows flaws: YellowKey (BitLocker bypass) and GreenPlasma (privilege escalation) YellowKey abuses WinRE to bypass BitLocker; verified by Kevin Beaumont, though ...
Forbes

How To Mitigate The Microsoft Windows BitLocker YellowKey USB 0-Day

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Microsoft publishes angry hacker YellowKey zero-day mitigation. As an angry hacker going by ...
Memeburn

BitLocker Bypass Exploit Vulnerability Hits Windows?

A new BitLocker bypass vulnerability, CVE-2026-50507, lets anyone holding your stolen Windows laptop read its encrypted files without a password. Microsoft scored it 6.8 and patched it in June 2026, ...
Ars Technica

Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections

A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds.
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft disables BitLocker security fix, advises manual mitigation

Microsoft has disabled a fix for a BitLocker security feature bypass vulnerability due to firmware incompatibility issues that were causing patched Windows devices to go into BitLocker recovery mode.
CSOonline

GreatXML zero-day BitLocker bypass doesn’t seem to work, yet

Researcher’s feud with Microsoft continues to escalate with new Windows zero-day flaw that an experience vulnerability expert says doesn’t work as advertised. A disgruntled researcher who has been ...