Researcher Publishes Windows Defender 0-Day ‘BlueHammer’ LPE Proof‑of‑Concept

Researcher Publishes Windows Defender 0-Day ‘BlueHammer’ LPE Proof‑of‑Concept

A security researcher using the handle Chaotic Eclipse has publicly released a working proof‑of‑concept for a Windows zero‑day local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit called “BlueHammer.” The disclosure, accompanied by full source code on GitHub, was confirmed as functional by vulnerability researcher Will Dormann and demonstrates that a low‑privileged local user can escalate to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM on affected machines. The release