In a report published by security company GuidePoint Security , they’ve issued a warning that hackers can effectively bypass Microsoft Defender to install and deploy Akira ransomware. This is done by exploiting a vulnerable driver called , which is a legitimate driver used by an Intel CPU tuning tool called ThrottleStop. By exploiting this driver, a hacker can gain kernel level access to the PC. With kernel level access, the hacker can then load their own malicious driver—in this...
