In that article it states a likelihood of it on a future release but am sure those guys who reported on that flaw expect a better response than that. This find seems way more of serious concern than what we learned of to date I think. Thanks @ronjor for the attention to the duplicate I posted. Many regards
I agree. When bad guys start using it, malware will be even harder to detect and eradicate. We will again need to start using anti-rootkit tools. And similar to HIPS I thought that those times are over.
If it can be of any consolation, at least that VERY SERIOUS flaw was discovered AND reported so that M$ can not only rec0de the darn thing again (remains to be seen if it will be addressed previous/current versions or not) but make more of an effort to examine it closer. Ring0 kernel vulnerability flaw is indeed a major game changer if left unchecked.
Funny, when AV vendors asked MS to make it easier to bypass Patchguard, MS refused, but I guess Intel pays more. So much for making security a priority.
I assume they didn't do this intentionally. And who knows if security tools will also start to make use of it. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing though. If I understood correctly, you can only exploit this flaw when you're able to load a driver, so apparently M$ is confident that a malicious driver should never be able to run on Win 10.
