Weeks after the exploit code dropped, Redmond has finally ships a fix for the Defender zero day Microsoft has quietly fixed the “RoguePlanet” zero day in Microsoft Defender, closing the latest hole exposed by security researcher Nightmare Eclipse after months of public sparring over the company handling of vulnerability reports. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE 2026 50656, was addressed through an update to the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine rather than via its monthly Patch Tuesday...
