Secondly, threat actors increasingly are focusing their attention on the network edge, the report continued, underscoring the ...

A Persistent Plague: 31% of attacked enterprises halt operations, 40% downsize staff, and 60% of SMEs close within six months.

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This is used to ward off attacks in which criminals bring their own drivers in vulnerable versions (BYOVD) – Once on the list, the Windows kernel refuses to load these drivers.

Halcyon Kernel Guard Protection — Halcyon identifies malicious use of known vulnerable drivers for Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) techniques, preventing attackers from disabling ...

A key component of some attacks is applying vulnerable or signed drivers in what is known as “bring your own vulnerable driver” or BYOVD attacks. Windows allows the installation of these drivers ...

Nima Bagheri, an Austin-based security researcher and founder of Venak Security, shared details of a new Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack in a March 20 report. In this attack, the ...

Ransomware operators have found a way to exploit a Microsoft Windows-signed driver from Paragon Partition Manager, posing a threat to system security. What Happened: The Paragon Partition Manager ...

Update now and enable BYOVD database from Microsoft Paragon has released updated versions of Paragon Partition Manager that include the driver "BioNTdrv.sys" in the no longer vulnerable version 2.0.0.

"Microsoft has observed threat actors (TAs) exploiting this weakness in BYOVD ransomware attacks, specifically using CVE-2025-0289 to achieve privilege escalation to SYSTEM level, then execute ...

It claimed Microsoft had spotted BYOVD attacks exploiting CVE-2025-0289, an insecure kernel resource access vulnerability in version 17 of Paragon Partition Manager’s BioNTdrv.sys driver. The exploit ...