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A new Windows 11 BitLocker bypass only needs a USB stick, and the researcher thinks it's a backdoor

BitLocker is the encryption layer that most Windows 11 users never think about. It runs quietly in the background and it's tied to the TPM, with the entire point of it being that if someone walks off ...
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YellowKey Tool Bypasses Windows 11 BitLocker Using Only a USB Stick

Update 5/21: Since this article was released, recommend mitigations for YellowKey and other attacks have been released, as well as a full patch for BlueHammer. Nightmare-Eclipse, a cybersecurity ...
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Researcher reveals USB-based BitLocker bypass in Windows 11

What is YellowKey?: A zero-day exploit allowing BitLocker bypass on Windows 11 and select servers using a USB stick and WinRE. Why it matters: It grants full access to encrypted drives without keys, ...
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A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

The Epitome of WTF: A researcher known as "Nightmare-Eclipse" recently released YellowKey, a security vulnerability that allegedly enables a full bypass of BitLocker's full-volume encryption. The ...
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USB stick opens Windows BitLocker drives in new zero-day

An unnamed security researcher using the monikers "Nightmare-Eclipse" and "Chaotic Eclipse" has published a simple bypass for Microsoft's disk encryption technology BitLocker on Windows, using a ...