The ultimate objective of the exploit, which Binarly disclosed Friday, is to install Bootkitty, a bootkit for Linux that was found and reported on Wednesday by researchers from security firm ESET.

HJBC/Getty Images It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer ...

Now, at Microsoft Build 2025, the company has made WSL open source, including its command-line tools (wsl.exe and wslg.exe), background services (wslservice.exe), and Linux-side daemons used to ...

Only two elements of WSL remain closed-source for now: an lxcore.sys kernel driver used for WSL 1 (the initial version of WSL that is still supported, though new installs default to 2019's WSL 2 ...