{"id":1011382,"date":"2026-06-01T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011382"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:49:53","slug":"microsoft-faces-backlash-after-suspending-accounts-linked-to-zero-day-exploit-disclosures-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/01\/microsoft-faces-backlash-after-suspending-accounts-linked-to-zero-day-exploit-disclosures-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft faces backlash after suspending accounts linked to zero-day exploit disclosures: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly facing criticism over its response to a security researcher who has been publicly sharing proof-of-concept code for software vulnerabilities. According to a report by The Verge, a person using the name &#8220;Nightmare Eclipse&#8221; has been involved in an ongoing dispute with Microsoft over the disclosure of zero-day exploits. The individual has posted exploit code online and, in some messages, suggested they may be a former Microsoft employee. The case has drawn attention from cybersecurity experts, who are questioning Microsoft&#8217;s actions after the company reportedly suspended several of the individual&#8217;s accounts and raised the possibility of legal action.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher questions Microsoft&#8217;s response<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly facing criticism over its response to a security researcher who has been publicly sharing proof-of-concept code for software vulnerabilities. According to a report by The Verge, a person using the name &#8220;Nightmare Eclipse&#8221; has been involved in an ongoing dispute with Microsoft over the disclosure of zero-day exploits. The individual has posted exploit code online and, in some messages, suggested they may be a former Microsoft employee. The case has drawn attention from cybersecurity experts, who are questioning Microsoft&#8217;s actions after the company reportedly suspended several of the individual&#8217;s accounts and raised the possibility of legal action. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011388,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011382\/revisions\/1011388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}