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Aug 06 2025 Akira ransomware abuses CPU tuning tool to disable Microsoft Defender

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Akira ransomware is abusing a legitimate Intel CPU tuning driver to turn off Microsoft Defender in attacks from security tools and EDRs running on target machines. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Wed 06 August 2025 in BleepingComputer.

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