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You switched on your PC. But instead of your desktop, you see a blue screen asking for a BitLocker recovery key when you haven’t even locked your drive. You don’t know how that happened, and it feels ...

There are several reasons why the BitLocker Recovery tab might disappear from Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC), leaving administrators confused. The most common reason is that the RSAT ...

Microsoft has released a temporary mitigation for YellowKey, a Windows zero-day that can reportedly bypass BitLocker protections.

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Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out mitigations for YellowKey, a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability leading to BitLocker bypass. The issue, now tracked as CVE-2026-45585 (CVSS score of 6.8), can be ...

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 ...

An anonymous cybersecurity researcher who disclosed three Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities has returned with two more zero-days involving a BitLocker bypass and a privilege escalation impacting ...

A disgruntled security researcher this week publicly disclosed two zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows that enable BitLocker bypass and privilege escalation. BitLocker, Windows’ built-in full-volume ...

A cybersecurity researcher has published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for two unpatched Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities named YellowKey and GreenPlasma, which are a BitLocker bypass and a ...