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A nightmare week for hundreds of millions of Microsoft Windows users has just got worse. And while there had seemed some good news coming out of Microsoft HQ for those users earlier in the week, that vibe has just been quashed.And then, before the ink was even close to dry on those update mandates, along came the cyber sleuths at Check Point Research, warning that a new variant of the devious Phemedrone Stealer has just been enhanced and is actively stealing crypto from unpatched Windows PCs.
The fact that this bypass has run for 10-months seemed to suggest that Microsoft was not going to stretch itself to shut it down, tolerating savvy user tricks to speed up the shift to Windows 11, even if it lowered the hardware security bar.
“If Microsoft wanted people to migrate from Windows 10 to Windows 11 they should have made Windows 11 compatible with the significant percentage of hardware currently running Windows 10 and not required tens of millions of people to buy new computers,” commented one reader. “Most people aren't willing to do that and now Microsoft wants to use scare tactics to coerce people into buying new equipment.
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