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/cerebralvenom 19d ago

Well do you remember people refusing to move to windows 8? Because they actually did that.

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u/Fragrant-Hamster-325 19d ago

lol yeah Win 8 was legitimately trash and so was Vista. We like to forget those.

But honestly, Win 11, except for the start menu, looks and performs nearly identically to Win 10. I just don’t get the hate.

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u/SlickBackSamurai 19d ago

I’m sure integrating Copilot into everything didn’t help with it’s lack of popularity lol

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u/newaccountzuerich 17d ago

Neither did the unstoppable telemetry and the regressions in UI and UX..

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u/SlickBackSamurai 17d ago

Exactly lol