It’s apparently hip to still be using Windows 7
Summary: Cisco Talos reports a social media trend of users bragging about still running Windows 7, an operating system Microsoft stopped issuing free security updates for in January 2020 and has since stopped offering paid Extended Security Updates for. Since the start of this year, 47 vulnerabilities have been discovered in Windows 7 according to NIST's Vulnerability Database, and Steam and Roblox only recently ended support for the OS.
Bottom line: An unsupported Windows 7 machine that gets infected can serve as a springboard for an attacker to target and infect other machines on the same network, and Microsoft is no longer compelled to disclose vulnerabilities with CVEs attached for the OS.
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