{"id":222662,"date":"2025-09-30T04:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-edr-freeze-tool-uses-windows-wer-to-suspend-security-software"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:26:44","slug":"new-edr-freeze-tool-uses-windows-wer-to-suspend-security-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-edr-freeze-tool-uses-windows-wer-to-suspend-security-software","title":{"rendered":"New EDR-Freeze tool uses Windows WER to suspend security software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-edr-freeze-tool-uses-windows-wer-to-suspend-security-software.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new method and proof-of-concept tool called EDR-Freeze demonstrates that evading security solutions is possible from user mode with Microsoft\u2019s Windows Error Reporting (WER) system.<\/p>\n<p>The technique eliminates the need of a vulnerable driver and puts security agents like endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools into a state of hibernation.<\/p>\n<p>By using the WER framework together with the MiniDumpWriteDump API, security researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerosalarium.com\/2025\/09\/EDR-Freeze-Puts-EDRs-Antivirus-Into-Coma.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TwoSevenOneThree (Zero Salarium)<\/a> found a way to suspend indefinitely the activity of EDR and antivirus processes indefinitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new method and proof-of-concept tool called EDR-Freeze demonstrates that evading security solutions is possible from user mode with Microsoft\u2019s Windows Error Reporting (WER) system. The technique eliminates the need of a vulnerable driver and puts security agents like endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools into a state of hibernation. By using the WER framework [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}