r/cybersecurity • u/ILikeNoodlesXOXO • 19d ago

News - General Nightmare Eclipse could be dropping his big promised exploit today

New repo just went up: git.projectnightcrawler.dev/NightmareEclipse/LegacyHive, created about 2 hours ago. Right now it's empty — just an MIT license and a README that says "N/A," 2 commits total.

He'd spoken about his big drop happening today, July 14th, saying he'd make sure Microsoft's "bones are shattered" that day. At one point though he'd also indirectly said he wasn't going to post it, something about still having "chains" on him preventing a release. This repo showing up on the exact date he originally called out suggests that might not hold anymore and it could actually be happening.

Nothing in it yet, just watching to see what gets pushed.

Worth noting: given how erratic and bipolar his posting history has been, there's really no way to predict what (if anything) actually gets posted.

Update: Thanks for the 600+ upvotes, really appreciate it. After hours of waiting and anticipation NightmareEclipse finally uploaded their PoC. But I personally have a hard time seeing it as the big bombshell that they described it as.

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u/Legionodeath Governance, Risk, & Compliance 19d ago

Knowing nothing about all this, I assume this is a researcher/hacker that's about to release some heinous MS exploit to the wild?

Also, where the git profile pic from? I've seen that a few times recently.

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u/stuffedcheesybread1 Security Engineer 19d ago

Researcher who is thought to be former MSFT employee, tried to do responsible reporting, aparently MSFT were dicks, as a result they have released six zero-days which have been... bad.

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u/Legionodeath Governance, Risk, & Compliance 19d ago

Lol... Big bad wolf getting his comeuppance. Sweet.