I wrote a quick post with my thoughts on the recent VMProtect leaks, and why I think it is a bad thing in general:

👉 https://blog.washi.dev/posts/on-the-vmp-leak-and-why-it-is-bad/

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On the recent VMProtect leaks and why it is a bad thing

You may have seen the recent word about the VMProtect source being leaked to various openly accessible places like GitHub. For obvious reasons I won’t link it here, but from the brief looks that I got, it indeed looks sophisticated enough that it could be the real deal. People embraced this news as a great thing, an early 2023 Christmas gift to the reversing community:

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