Huntress details four ways attackers who already hold administrator rights add Microsoft Defender exclusions to keep malicious files out of every scan. A registry value can also hide those exclusions from any admin who checks for them.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives62
- Confidence60
Chaotic Eclipse published working code that abuses Falcon's Office macro removal on fully patched Windows 11 25H2 and Server 2025. It is the fourth endpoint product the researcher has dropped exploit code for, and no CrowdStrike response is on record.
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- Builder
- Builder 36%
- Operator
- Operator 51%
- Investor
- Investor 13%
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence68
IRIS C2 found a kernel extension named EndpointSecuritySE in an iOS build Apple released to developers on September 16, along with the entitlement and research-mode checks that decide which clients may read its events.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives55
- Confidence55
The PIVOT program was announced on September 15 with Broadcom, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Sophos signed up, and the first comparative results are due in January 2027. MITRE's rival test drew 11 vendors in 2025.
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- Evidence42
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
High-confidence "no problem" precision fell from a roughly 98% target to 90.8% one week past tuning. Closing alerts automatically buys you a monitoring job, not fewer analysts.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives58
- Confidence55