A Fortra researcher found a simple bug in the Common Log File System (CLFS) driver that can instantly trigger the infamous blue screen of death across any recent versions of Windows.
Originally published in Dark Reading.
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"It's a good way for an attacker to maybe cover their tracks, or take down a service where they otherwise shouldn't be able to, and I think that's where the real risk comes in," Fortra’s Tyler Reguly says. "These systems reboot unexpectedly, [you] ignore the crash because it came back up and it's fine now, but that might have been somebody hiding their activity — hiding the fact that they wanted it to reboot so that a new setting would take effect."
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