YellowKey reportedly works in Windows 11, Windows Server 2022 and 2025, but not in Windows 10.

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[–] 188 points 5 months ago (4 children)

YellowKey can be triggered simply by merely copying some files to a USB stick and rebooting to the Windows Recovery Environment. We tested this ourselves, and sure enough, not only does it work, it bears all the hallmarks of a backdoor, down to the exploit's files disappearing from the USB stick after it's used once.

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    100% certainty of backdoor. Is bitlocker developed outside of MSFT? Would seem to need MSFT cooperation to implement.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Bitlocker was developed entirely inside MSFT. Upon further review, there is a chance that this is all somewhat normal behaviour. Part of MSFT safeOS to make it convenient to recover bitlocker access, and update windows.

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