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> Zero-Day Exploit Against Windows BitLocker

[SOURCE] Schneier on Security [AUTHOR: Bruce Schneier] [DATE: 18/05/2026 11:08] [LANGUAGE: EN]
It’s nasty, but it requires physical access to the computer: The exploit, named YellowKey, was published earlier this week by a researcher who goes by the alias Nightmare-Eclipse. It reliably bypasses default Windows 11 deployments of BitLocker, the full-volume encryption protection Microsoft provides to make disk contents off-limits to anyone without the decryption key, which is stored in a secured piece of hardware known as a trusted platform module (TPM). BitLocker is a mandatory protection for many organizations, including those that contract with governments. Slashdot thread. And here’s Nightmare-Eclipse’s GitHub account.
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