ESET research discovers a zero-day exploit that takes advantage of a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows In June 2019, ESET researchers identified a zero-day exploit being used in a highly targeted attack in Eastern Europe. The exploit abuses a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, specifically a NULL pointer dereference in the win32k.sys component. Once th
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