“They will ruin my life”: Microsoft threatens to wield ‘Digital Crimes Unit’ over zero-day exploit disclosures — causing uproar in the cybersec community

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.