Since 28/04/2021 around 22:00, thousands of files started to be created in folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Store\ on one of my domain controllers.
There were over 200k files which caused that night's backup to take over 4hours rather then the normal 20minutes.
There are now well over 400k files.
Another member server is also affected by this, there are over 2million files in the same folder being:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\Store\
Bother servers are running Windows Server 2016.
The files are 1-2KB.
Settings>Update&Security>Windows Defender settings are enabled.
Windows Defender GUI>History is empty for Quarantined, Allowed and All Detected items.
No Windows Defender scan is running.
Resource Monitor>Disk>Disk Activity shows the System process accessing these files, so I presume it is creating them.
System is also the owner of these files.