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Analysing BigDiskBuster, the Microsoft Defender Update Blocker

This is my analysis of the BigDiskBuster - the open source Microsoft Defender Update Blocker.

Posted: Sep 27, 2026 by Mayuresh @pentestit
Updated: Oct 16, 2026

Last week Nightmare Eclipse open sourced BigDiskBuster - although I can see that now all the repositories have been made private. This post is my analysis of this tool that many news outlets called a "0day" initially. In reality, it is a class of defense-evasion tools that never touches a security product - Windows Defender in this case. It does not involve a driver unload, or Read more about Analysing BigDiskBuster, the Microsoft Defender Update Blocker

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