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Windows Central
Technology
Jez Corden

"They will ruin my life": Microsoft threatens to wield 'Digital Crimes Unit' over exploit disclosures — causing uproar in the cybersecurity community (UPDATE)

A hacker does hackery things.

Having known a fair few cybersecurity researchers in my time, I know that Microsoft is something of a controversial figure.

Being the largest operating system in the world, Windows is often the target of hacks and exploits, alongside Microsoft's cloud Azure. Russian-backed hackers breached Microsoft's 365 layer last year, for example, compromising U.S. government official accounts.

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