Microsoft is the Security Threat, Not the Security Expert/Authority, But Microsoft-Funded Media Won't Tell You That
Way to distract from the Microsoft breaches (Microsoft cannot even secure its own systems)
THERE is a lot of noise/chaff in the media or "some campaign is under way," an associate told us, taking note of spam for Microsoft, "plus loads of TikTok spam too." (Likely paid-for puff pieces, basically a PR/marketing/lobbying campaign in the media)
While we generally don't want to hypothesise too much, let's quickly consider what's going on in Microsoft's orbit right now and what's being misreported or not reported on at all.
To be very clear, Microsoft puts back doors in almost everything, so it is anything but a security expert, but we're meant to think that Microsoft is some kind of security firm, as per this new article that says:
Microsoft and Mandiant researchers [sic] believe Iranian hackers were not prepared for the initial Hamas attack.
Since when is Microsoft a security expert? It cannot even keep its very own systems secure from state-backed actors. As for Mandiant (or Google), when it last suffered a major breach it was due to Windows and after that Google implemented new policies barring the use of Windows. This was over a decade ago.
On the same day Microsoft was being misrepresented as an expert in security... in a site bribed by Microsoft. It was about this SysAid ransomware issue. The Microsoft-bribed site portrayed Microsoft as the "ground truth" in "Microsoft warns SysAid vulnerability is being used to deploy Clop ransomware", adding that "[t]he warning came from [Abusive Monopolist] Microsoft Corp.’s Threat Intelligence [sic] team, which wrote on X that it had discovered the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in SysAid’s IT support software [...]"
So they base this on some "tweet" from Microsoft, distracting from the real cost of Windows. Some excellent (not!) "reporting" right there... Microsoft-funded 'media'.
Well, you know what the so-called 'media' did not report on, at least not in English? In IRC, psydroid said he had found this report in German about "Outlook sending login data to Microsoft servers," to quote his summary of the issue ("just for the title"). Some other German sites covered the same.
"I haven't read these," psydroid added, "but Microsoft is a giant data mining operation; they feel entitled to their customers' data, all of it [...] I haven't seen any English articles on this Outlook behaviour yet [...] proprietary software made for proprietary operating systems should give you enough of a hint." █