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    Rather impressive how quickly the hackers reverse-engineered Microsoft’s patch and used the vulnerability whilst the opportunity was still available:

    The threat group, tracked under names including APT28, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Forest Blizzard, and Sofacy, pounced on the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, less than 48 hours after Microsoft released an urgent, unscheduled security update late last month, the researchers said. After reverse-engineering the patch, group members wrote an advanced exploit that installed one of two never-before-seen backdoor implants.

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    5 hours ago

    Slopper companies like MS, Google, and Spotify are all having massive vulnerabilities. I wonder why.

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      It sounds like they’ve gotten fat, rich, and complacent. Just like some societies I know!

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      Vibe coding. Overuse of H-1B visas. Microsoft specifically seems to rely a lot on foreign workers because a lot of them will do whatever their employer asks without question because their employer has a lot of control over whether they are even allowed in the US. Even if they are natural citizens it seems a lot of them don’t have the same privileges & a bad review by an employer has more potential to ruin their career. Also, the caste system exists here even in the US.

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        Overuse of H-1B visas.

        It’s literally a system of indentured servitude and corpos are just free to abuse it with impunity.