Microsoft calls zero-day releases ‘never justifiable’ as researcher threatens to drop more
2026-05-29T20:52:00Z•dd6500803e5d5397acea44b6f382154d6efbeeefb1f27510706cc5ecac804648
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What happened
Multiple high-risk incidents: a security researcher published multiple zero-day vulnerabilities with working proof-of-concept code to GitHub and threatened further disclosures, raising immediate exploitation risk; Carnival confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 6 million people after an attacker compromised an employee account and copied personal information; a Chinese-speaking fraud gang has registered over 4,300 fraudulent domains impersonating FIFA to scam 2026 World Cup fans; GCHQ warned of daily Russian attacks across domains from seabed infrastructure (subsea cables, pipelines) to IT/c
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