Microsoft is threatening to take legal action against the whistleblower

Microsoft is facing criticism for its zero-day success. Someone named Nightmare Eclipse has been publicly arguing with the company, posting evidence of exploitative intentions. Some of his posts show that he is a disgruntled former employee. But that caught the cyber security researcher off guard Biography of Kevin Beaumont eye was how Microsoft is he answered.

Microsoft indicates that it plans to bring a a case against Nightmare Eclipse for failing to follow “due diligence” in revealing weaknesses. They also disabled Nightmare Eclipse’s GitHub, GitLab, and the Microsoft Security Response Center. accounts are suspended. As Beaumont says, “It’s hard to make ‘sensible’ predictions about future challenges when you’re banned.”

What bothers Beaumont is that Microsoft has hired people who have done much of the same. They’ve hired people who have publicly posted zero-day information, some with criminal records. Microsoft has also bought shares from brokers.

If Microsoft’s strategy is to try to make them not follow the obvious “broadcasting” methods, good luck defending this in court – because there is a whole criminal decision-making process in the past within Microsoft and the truth can be seen.