I am not saying that the image is to be trusted, but “Win32/Wacatac.B!ml” is just a generic name for anything obfuscated by vmprotect. Most cracks are detected as “Win32/Wacatac.B!ml”
Also, because it’s detected by microsoft defender itself, if they really had a malicious intent, they would have whitelisted those executables in the disk image.
I am not saying that the image is to be trusted, but “Win32/Wacatac.B!ml” is just a generic name for anything obfuscated by vmprotect. Most cracks are detected as “Win32/Wacatac.B!ml”
Also, because it’s detected by microsoft defender itself, if they really had a malicious intent, they would have whitelisted those executables in the disk image.
The vendor itself acknowledged the situation by saying that the virus problem was solved!