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Analysis · May 20, 2026 · Colten Anderson
CISA just gave the Conficker bug a 2026 deadline
Five of the seven CVEs CISA added on May 20 are 2008–2010 fossils, including MS08-067 and Operation Aurora. KEV inclusion means current exploitation, so the real signal isn't nostalgia.
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Analysis · May 10, 2026 · Colten Anderson
The seven-year gap is the story, not the CVE
Microsoft patched CVE-2018-8639 in December 2018. CISA added it to the KEV catalog in March 2025. The interesting number isn't the bug's age. It's the distance between when a fix shipped and when the exposed fleet was acknowledged.