{"id":1013598,"date":"2026-06-10T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013598"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:35:00","slug":"angry-with-researcher-for-publishing-unpatched-bugs-microsoft-to-go-for-criminal-investigation-says-our-digital-crimes-unit-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/10\/angry-with-researcher-for-publishing-unpatched-bugs-microsoft-to-go-for-criminal-investigation-says-our-digital-crimes-unit-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry with researcher for publishing unpatched bugs, Microsoft to go for criminal investigation; says: Our Digital Crimes Unit will &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft published a blog post criticizing the researcher, who goes by the handle \u201cNightmare Eclipse,\u201d for publicly disclosing a series of bugs, including BlueHammer, RedSun, UnDefend, and YellowKey. The flaws affected products such as the Windows built-in antivirus engine Defender and the disk-encryption tool BitLocker. The core of Microsoft\u2019s complaints is that the researcher did not attempt to report the bugs so that the company could fix them. According to the company that would have been \u201cresponsible,\u201d. In a blog post, Microsoft said that by publishing the details of the bugs and how to exploit them before the company patched them, Nightmare Eclipse may have aided malicious hackers. Some of the vulnerabilities Nightmare Eclipse disclosed have since been used by hackers in real-world attacks, according to Microsoft. The disclosure by hackers has not gone well with the US cybersecurity agency CISA as well, which too agrees with Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft published a blog post criticizing the researcher, who goes by the handle \u201cNightmare Eclipse,\u201d for publicly disclosing a series of bugs, including BlueHammer, RedSun, UnDefend, and YellowKey. The flaws affected products such as the Windows built-in antivirus engine Defender and the disk-encryption tool BitLocker. The core of Microsoft\u2019s complaints is that the researcher did not attempt to report the bugs so that the company could fix them. According to the company that would have been \u201cresponsible,\u201d. In a blog post, Microsoft said that by publishing the details of the bugs and how to exploit them before the company patched [&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-1013598","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\/1013598","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=1013598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013599,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013598\/revisions\/1013599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}