On Tuesday morning, some PC gamers woke up to discover their computers were seemingly under threat. A “HackTool” called WinRing0 had suddenly started triggering a Windows Defender alert, as if their PCs were under attack. Some of those computers even began behaving oddly — like blasting their fans at high speed — once the HackTool had been quarantined. I know, because it happened to me.
But my computer wasn’t actually under attack — at least, not yet.
When I checked where…
