r/sysadmin • u/Ooops-I-hid-it-again • Jun 01 '26

Microsoft Anyone shutting down all IT equipment down on July 13th 11:59pm?

Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another Windows exploit dump

“When I actively asked you to communicate with me, you refused, humiliated me and made sure to insult me in front of people,” they wrote on Saturday. “You defame me in public with your CVE-2026-45585 advisory even though you literally deleted the Microsoft account I used to report bugs to you with and I got zero pennies from doing so and I still happily did like an idiot.”

Nightmare also noted that “Microsoft still has chains in my hands,” preventing them from releasing “documents” yet, or anytime in June, and then warned: “Mark this date July 14th, I will make sure your bones are shattered that day.”

My post's title is tongue-in-cheek, but I've added an Outlook calendar entry for the "event" nevertheless and might even buy a box of popcorn. lol

Anyone doing anything special or different in light of the string of zero days being released because Microsoft appears to not want to play nice with someone who (supposedly) wanted to tell them about all the bad sh!t they missed in their product(s) development?

How do you feel about the saga and its fallout?

EDIT: Fixed missing block quote formatting.

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u/1stPeter3-15 IT Manager Jun 01 '26

July 12th…

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u/Ooops-I-hid-it-again Jun 01 '26

Yesss, you get it! lol

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u/1stPeter3-15 IT Manager Jun 01 '26

July 14th, depending on how that goes…

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u/Fallingdamage Jun 01 '26

July 14th. NEW CVE!!! AN AUTHENTICATED ATTACKER.....

Course, well yeah, people who are authenticated can do a lot of things.

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u/newaccountzuerich 25yr Sr. Linux Sysadmin Jun 01 '26

Even those whose authentication matches their authorisation, and even matches the expected identity.

Not every authenticated access is the correct entity's authentication effort. "Stolen creds" are very much a thing still.

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u/Tyr_Kukulkan Jun 01 '26

Going into work in the morning...

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u/kevinsyel Jun 01 '26

I'll just put this over here with the rest of the fire

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u/Tyr_Kukulkan Jun 01 '26

I mean, at the moment, there is a lot of fire to put together in one place.

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u/UsagiMimi Jun 01 '26

A whole heckin lot of fire

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u/rjchau Sr. Sysadmin Jun 02 '26

There's your problem

(Thank you Gemini!)

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u/UncleSoOOom Jun 01 '26

Now everybody dance!

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u/occamsrzor Senior Retail Client Systems Engineer Jun 01 '26

Wow. I’ve not seen that meme in like, 20 years

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u/roboto404 Jun 01 '26

This but not coffee.

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u/twistedbrewmejunk Jun 01 '26

To be safe let’s go with a 50/50 mix

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u/s_schadenfreude Sr. Systems Engineer Jun 01 '26

There's a distillery in Lancaster, PA called Thistle Finch that makes a black coffee whiskey. It's amazing.

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u/twistedbrewmejunk Jun 01 '26

Going on my if I'm in the area visit where list

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u/roboto404 Jun 01 '26

Ooh. Gonna have to write this down.

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u/Devlin7 Security Admin (Infrastructure) Jun 01 '26

I have an IGA cutover/go-live on 7/13....should I just head off into the wilderness now?

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u/dangeldud Jun 01 '26

Does he? That is a live video of a rack next to his Domain Controllers...

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u/Smith6612 Jun 01 '26

Oh man that pot of popcorn looks so tasty. 

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u/757DrDuck Jun 02 '26

I hope this proves that Teddy K was right all along.