It's the time of the year for the latest soft-wear update
Last year, Microsoft jumped on the trend of "ugly holiday sweaters." Going back to classic Americana trends of wearing jumpers of questionable taste doubled-downed by adding corny holiday themes, sweaters are now the hipster December fashion trend.
In 2018, Dona Sarkar, who led the Windows Insider team, sent out sweaters to fans and influencers with the Windows 95 logo, so it only makes sense for 2019 we get Windows XP (we're pretending that whole Windows ME thing never happened).
This time, however, Redmond went even a little further as the sweater comes in a Windows XP box – like the very ones that shipped in 2001 when the OS launched.
Small details like "Pro-ho-ho-fessional", "Version 2019", "Soft-wear Pack 2" and "Get ready to eXPerience the most impressive Windows soft-wear update yet" only add to the tongue-in-cheek cheesiness.
Unfortunately, there are no plans to sell these limited-edition gems, but tha...
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A quick look at who's in on Microsoft's '19 #WindowsUglySweater campaign
It's the time of the year for the latest soft-wear update Last year, Microsoft jumped on the trend of "ugly holiday sweaters." Going back to classic Americana trends of wearing jumpers of questionable taste doubled-downed by adding corny…
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title: Detect Exploitation - A quick look at who's in on Microsoft's '19 #WindowsUglySweater campaign
id: 569bbfd1-51f8-494b-aeaf-5030fc7dac57
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-24
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_accessSyntax validiert (0 Fehler)
rule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-24"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "A quick look at who\'s in on Mi" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}Syntax validiert (0 Fehler)
index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("A quick look at whos in on Microsofts 19")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - countSyntax validiert (0 Fehler)
message: "*A quick look at whos in on Microsofts 19*"Syntax validiert (0 Fehler)
CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "A quick look at whos in on Microsofts 19"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
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