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If she's going for maximum damage, I am surprised this person doesn't just announce when she's found a big exploit, and then just sell it to up to 10 people, and then announce in very vague terms what the exploits are. (Like, "just sold exploit for windows defender" or "just sold way to hack into bitlocker").

It seems like the vagueness of such things would make corporations more worried about being hacked and Microsoft could only guess as to what specific code was hacked, costing them greater resources.

Yes, it would be illegal, and therefore I hope she doesn't do that and recommend against it. But I am just surprised, given the level of anger, that she has been approaching things in a way that is so easy to patch.

Is her approach more damaging the way she's actually doing it?

What even is the headline

Microsoft closed the case after the reporter refused to submit a video of the exploit

They don't have any actual fucking security experts there, so they require video proof that ape will understand.

Posting zero day exploits on github is a shit move. But Microsoft should be happy that this guy posted it on github rather than selling it on the black market.

Banning his guthub account won't make zero day vulnerabilities go away ffs.

This is extremely unfair to MicroSlop.

Didn't Google also recently used their stupid AI to find exploits in FFMPEG and then blackmailed them to fix it before deadline or they will release them to the public? If banning a dev for such "act" is right, then banning the company should also be right. Ban all of them.

Uniformed other than a few snippets from the blog but the researcher doesn't seem to be in a good place mentally. Understandable if what they claim is true, making them unreliable if it isn't.

Not victim blaming, but things aren't automatically true because they are anti Ms.

I'm surprised admins found a window large enough when github wasn't down to ban the researcher.

“Hey, let’s piss off the security expert who’s really good at finding flaws in our products. There’s literally no downside.”

I feel that companies like Microsoft have forgotten that bug bounties and ethical reporting are the compromise where they agree to pay a fair amount for the bugs and are given time to fix them and the security researcher forgoes the 10x price they could get on the black market.

Given the rise in mercenary hacking/spyware corporations, the bug researchers could probably get way more money through those alternate, and still legal, channels.

So I hear.

Is this the bitlocker backdoor? That's not an exploit / zeroday

Thats making a backdoor be known.

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Okay,

So let me get this straight, when I actively asked you to communicate with me, you refused, humiliated me and made sure to insult me in front of people.

You defame me in public with your CVE-2026-45585 advisory even though you literally deleted the Microsoft account I used to report bugs to you with and I got zero pennies from doing so and I still happily did like an idiot.

Now you take the courtesy to flag my github account and wipe it out of the public, just like that ? You are proving to everyone that you actively escalating this conflict but I'm done begging you.

I might sound like crazy idiot who is whinning around but I have proof for every single word I said, I just can't release it yet. Why ? Microsoft still has chains in my hands, it's been like this for years and I just can't stay silent anymore. I hope I can release the documents soon.

Mark this date July 14th, I will make sure your bones are shattered that day. Nothing will be released this June (or maybe I will release smtg, depending on circumstances).

Also,

CVE-2026-45498 is UnDefend

CVE-2026-41091 is RedSun

New GitLab account,

https://gitlab.com/nightmare-eclipse

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https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/

Their account on GitLab is already blocked https://gitlab.com/nightmare-eclipse

This is a cartoonish level of evil by Microsoft blud

Man, Microsoft just keeps footgunning this one.

Every new exploit, they clearly have a meeting and convince themselves "that's gotta be the last of it, right?"

So the next day-after-patch-tuesday rolls around and lo and behold, this guy drops some more nukes on their reputation as far as their most important customer demographic are concerned (corporate IT)

Given this genuinely does seem to stem from Microsoft mishandling this guy, why the fuck do they keep escalating

Microsoft has been mum on any details about these matters, so it's hard to tell if the situation is about an uncooperative researcher who doesn't follow standard disclosure rules or a company being difficult about security reports. Regardless, the move to ban Eclipse's GitHub account makes for poor optics, as it is being heavily criticized, and ultimately achieves nothing for security, since the code is out there anyway.

Classic Streisand effect. Just two years ago Satya Nadella publicly announced they're prioritizing security above all else, but now have nothing to say about these exploits and are trying to silence the researcher? Viewing from the sidelines, it did seem a bit reckless how Eclipse was dropping these as zero days, but Microsoft's actions speak louder than words and they probably didn't pay for the bounties.