Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits

Microsoft is facing disapproval for its handling of zero-day exploits. Someone going by the sanction Nightmare Eclipse has been publically feuding with the company, posting proof-of-concept exploit code. Some of their posts suggest that they're a disgruntled erstwhile employee. But what caught cyber information researcher Kevin Beaumont's oculus was however Microsoft has responded.

Microsoft suggests it plans to bring a criminal case against Nightmare Eclipse for failing to travel "proper coordination" successful disclosing vulnerabilities. They besides disabled Nightmare Eclipse's GitHub, GitLab, and Microsoft Security Response Center accounts disabled. As Beaumont constituent …

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