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… A vulnerability broker he had known for a while and trusted had introduced him to a new researcher called James Willy from New York, Caceres [said]. We hopped in a group chat, the three of us, and he sent me a Visual Studio project to take a look at a driver bug that caused a blue screen of death. … James [said] it was linked to Google Chrome – an instant attention-grabber for bug hunters. Vulns affecting software used by tens of millions worldwide are rare and command hefty rewards. … The code was all legit, it was a real crash with potential security implications, but I wasn t careful when I opened the Visual Studio project. [But] opening some Visual Studio projects can cause code to execute, which was the North Koreans attack vector. ....