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Finally fixed: Microsoft closes door on a popular Win 11 activation hack

With Windows 10 reaching the end of mainstream support last month, many are taking a hard look at Windows 11. But those looking to activate the operating system without a license have one less option ...
Android Authority

This open-source tool can activate practically every Windows and Office release

Popular Windows activator tool MAS (Microsoft Activation Scripts) has been updated to v3.0 with TSforge, the developer group’s most powerful activation exploit yet. With TSforge, MAS can activate ...
Bleeping Computer

Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware

A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell scripts that infect Windows systems with the 'Cosmali Loader'.
TechSpot

Your pirated copy of Windows might have just stopped working

Black flag down: Microsoft has closed an activation loophole that was widely used by software pirates to run Windows and Office without a legitimate license. The group behind the activation tool has ...
TechSpot

Hacking group claims to have cracked Microsoft's software licensing security on a massive scale

A hot potato: "This is the largest breakthrough in Windows/Office piracy ever," hacker collective Massgrave are claiming on X. The exploit reportedly enables permanent activation of nearly all modern ...