Microsoft's Patch Fiasco: Pirate Team Reveals Bug Fix Was an Accidental Mishap

Market Watcher
Jul 15, 2025

A notorious Windows activation group known as MAS introduced the TSforge method in February, promising seamless, permanent activation for Windows 10/11. However, Microsoft swiftly countered this within a month by altering code in its Windows Insider updates to block the exploit. What shocked the MAS team was the sheer clumsiness of Microsoft's solution. According to their analysis, the TSforge activation required reading hash caches for "IID" and "CID" data. Yet, in the new version, Microsoft's update mistakenly modified the code to fetch hash caches from the memory addresses of "IID" and "CID" instead. Since memory addresses constantly shift, the resulting hash values fluctuate endlessly, causing the ZeroCID activation mechanism to fail validation. How can this be deemed unintentional? MAS points to the shoddy nature of the fix—code untouched for over a decade suddenly changed just weeks after TSforge emerged, suggesting a hasty, reactionary move. Adding to the absurdity, while ZeroCID faltered, the KMS4k method within TSforge remained fully functional, defying logical repair tactics. This scenario implies Microsoft inadvertently used one bug to patch another. MAS promptly reported the flaw via Microsoft's feedback center, urging improved code quality to avoid such elementary errors. Predictably, like most submissions, it went unanswered, leaving the defective code now embedded across all Windows 11 versions, including stable releases and beta channels.

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