Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates
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Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates

The Hacker News · Sep 22, 2026

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Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates
Security September 22, 2026

A zero-day proof-of-concept tool that stops Microsoft Defender from installing platform and signature updates by filling all available disk space was published on GitHub on September 19. The tool, called BigDiskBuster, has no patch, no CVE, and no Microsoft advisory. Its author, Abdelhamid Naceri, is a former Microsoft security researcher whose earlier Defender exploits were used in

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