Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC
03-09-2026 20:08 via theregister.com

Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC

The disgruntled security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse (aka Chaotic Eclipse, Infinite Nightmare, and now also MSNightmare) is moving away from their singular Microsoft vendetta and on to other vendors. On Thursday, they dropped a new zero-day bug called FalconFlank that affects CrowdStrike’s Falcon endpoint security platform - albeit with a Windows link. According to the prolific zero-day hunter, FalconFlank is a privilege escalation vulnerability that abuses the Microsoft Office m
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