Windows 10, and even Windows 8.1 Update 3, uses Control Flow Guard (CFG) to protect against memory-corruption attacks. Close to the end of last year, Microsoft said the CFG security feature could ...

For example ... As such, Control Flow Guard inserts extra security checks that could detect attempts to hijack the original code. When a CFG check fails at runtime, Windows immediately terminates ...

from hijacking the native "control flow" and make the app take unwanted actions. Until now, if a developer wanted their Windows application to tap into the Windows OS CFG protection, they needed ...