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New GreatXML Exploit Bypasses Windows BitLocker via Recovery Partition XML Files

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Published June 12, 2026
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New GreatXML Exploit Bypasses Windows BitLocker via Recovery Partition XML Files

Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse and MSNightmare) has released a new Windows BitLocker bypass dubbed GreatXML, a day after they published an exploit for Microsoft Defender.

"This was an accidental discovery, it took a total of 4 hours to find this," the researcher said in a post on Blogger. "If you ever attempted to use Windows Defender Offline Scan, you're

Original report published on: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/new-greatxml-exploit-bypasses-windows.html