Hackers commonly bypass Microsoft Windows kernel protections to enable cheating in competitive online games, new research shows. Academics at the University of Birmingham performed a technical ...

Signed kernel drivers – Unguarded gateway to Windows’ core. ESET researchers look at malware that abuses vulnerabilities in kernel drivers and outline mitigation techniques against this type ...

“During our research we identified threat actors leveraging HookSignTool and FuckCertVerifyTimeValidity, signature timestamp forging tools that have been publicly available since 2019 and 2018 ...

It's worth noting that Microsoft listened to security vendors and in Windows Vista and Windows 7 implemented several new documented methods to let products include self-defense mechanisms.

Proof-of-concept code was published detailing a zero-day Windows kernel vulnerability while a Windows Trojan is currently circulating ransomware in active attacks on the Web.

The leaked copy of Windows Research Kernel published on GitHub is outdated and incomplete, but it casts a key insight into the language in which Windows 10 was written about.

Singularity is a Microsoft Research project to build a highly-dependable microkernel operating system in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications are all written in managed code.