Microsoft’s out-of-date driver list left Windows PCs open to malware attacks for years

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Microsoft hasn’t been protecting devices against malicious drivers.

, Microsoft uses something called hypervisor-protected code integrity that’s supposed to protect against malicious drivers, which theand Will Dormann, a senior vulnerability analyst at cybersecurity company Analygence, found that this feature doesn’t provide adequate protection against malicious drivers.in September, Dormann explains that he was able to successfully download a malicious driver on an HVCI-enabled device, even though the driver was on Microsoft’s blocklist.

Microsoft didn’t address Dormann’s findings until earlier this month. “We have updated the online docs and added a download with instructions to apply the binary version directly,” Microsoft project manager Jeffery Sutherland

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