MS says they mitigated it without user intervention. Allegedly someone with privileges for Windows Defender could access an index file and send file contents over a network. I couldn’t tell if the file contents were just the index itself or file contents from elsewhere on the machine but I think it’s the former.
Anyway, MS says it’s fixed and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Here’s microsoft’s info: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49071
MS says they mitigated it without user intervention. Allegedly someone with privileges for Windows Defender could access an index file and send file contents over a network. I couldn’t tell if the file contents were just the index itself or file contents from elsewhere on the machine but I think it’s the former.
Anyway, MS says it’s fixed and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Probably found it when a computer was just sending Recall images out to a C&C server. Nothing to see here! xD