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Summary: Microsoft is trying to portray itself as some kind of moral and responsible security guru whilst its own actions suggest the exact opposite; some in the media play along with Microsoft's false framing/narrative

THIS morning saw not only one article but three articles (just minutes apart) that blame "Russia" for what seems to be Windows breaches. Those 3 were in my RSS feeds, but it's easy to imagine there are many dozens like them (also not in the English language) blaming "Russia" rather than what Russia may or may not be exploiting (maybe it's not Russia at all; the attribution is taken at face value without independent fact-checking; see "Marble Framework" in Vault 7 and CIA leaks).

"We already encountered this kind of spin last year when Microsoft blamed "China"."The video above discusses those three articles [1, 2, 3], which we've already included in Daily Links. We already encountered this kind of spin last year when Microsoft blamed "China".

To paraphrase an associate, the various so-called 'news' sites seem to be wrongly blaming the Mediabank breach on either a) not paying the ransom, or b) the ransomware gang itself, instead of where the blame really lies: Microsoft and those that brought Microsoft product into the working environment. ⬆