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

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    2 hours ago

    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.