Office 365 User Enumeration

Enumerate valid usernames email addresses from Office 365 using ActiveSync. Differences in the HTTP Response code and HTTP Headers can be used to differentiate between: - Valid Username Response code 401 - Valid Username and Password without 2FA Response Code 200 - Valid Username and Password wit...

XStream is vulnerable to a Remote Command Execution attack

Impact The vulnerability may allow a remote attacker has sufficient rights to execute commands of the host only by manipulating the processed input stream. No user is affected, who followed the recommendation to setup XStream's security framework with a whitelist limited to the minimal required...

Unauthorized access vulnerability in the security emergency response center of Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co.

Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. is an Internet technology company. The security emergency response center of Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. has unauthorized access vulnerabilities, and attackers can use the vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information...

Protecting customers from a private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits and DevilsTongue malware

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC alongside the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC has uncovered a private-sector offensive actor, or PSOA, that we are calling SOURGUM in possession of now-patched, Windows 0-day exploits CVE-2021-31979 and CVE-2021-33771. Private-sector offensiv...

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine信息泄露漏洞（CVE-2021-27075）

CVE-2021-27075: Microsoft Azure Vulnerability Allows Privilege Escalation and Leak of Private Data Written by Paul Litvak - 11 May 2021 In this post I will explain how the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine VM extension works and how we found a fatal vulnerability in the extension mechanism affectin...

CVE-2021-26419

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability...

Unsecured Microsoft Bing Server Exposed Users' Search Queries and Location

A back-end server associated with Microsoft Bing exposed sensitive data of the search engine's mobile application users, including search queries, device details, and GPS coordinates, among others. The logging database, however, doesn't include any personal details such as names or addresses. The...

What to Expect When Reporting Vulnerabilities to Microsoft

At the Microsoft Security Response Center’s MSRC, our primary mission is to help protect our customers. One of the ways we do this is by working with security researchers to discover security vulnerabilities in our services and products, and then making sure those that pose a threat to customers...

What to Expect When Reporting Vulnerabilities to Microsoft

At the Microsoft Security Response Center’s MSRC, our primary mission is to help protect our customers. One of the ways we do this is by working with security researchers to discover security vulnerabilities in our services and products, and then making sure those that pose a threat to customers...

Top MSRC 2020 Q2 Security Researchers Announced – Congratulations!

We are excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2020 Second Quarter Q2! Congratulations to all the researchers who continue to rock the leaderboard, and a big thank you to everyone for your contribution to securing our customers and the ecosystem. The top three researchers of...

The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust

Our team, DeisLabs, recently released a new piece of software called Krustlet, which is a tool for running WebAssembly modules on the popular, open-source container management tool called Kubernetes. Kubernetes is used quite extensively to run cloud software across many vendors and companies and ...

PowerPoint ‘Weakness’ Opens Door to Malicious Mouse-Over Attack

A researcher is sounding the alarm over what he believes could be a novel attack vector which allows a hacker to manipulate a PowerPoint file to download and begin the installation of malware, simply by hovering over a hypertext link. The technique does require a victim to accept one pop-up...

March 2020 security updates are available

We have released the March security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about this month’s security updates can be found in the Security Update Guide. The post March 2020...

February 2020 security updates are available

We have released the February security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about this month’s security updates can be found in the Security Update Guide. The post February...

カスタマー サポート データベースのアクセス構成の誤りについて

本記事は、Microsoft Security Response Center ブログ “Access Misconfiguration for Customer Support Database” 2020 年 1 月 22 日 米国時間...

Announcing MSRC 2019 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard

Following the first Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard we published in October 2019, we are excited to announce the MSRC Q4 2019 Security Researcher Leaderboard, which shows the top contributing researchers for the last quarter. In each quarterly leaderboard, we recognize the security...

BlueHat Seattle videos are online!

Were you unable to attend BlueHat Seattle, or wanted to see a session again? We have good news. If you have been waiting for the videos from BlueHat Seattle last month, the wait is over. All videos which the presenter authorized to be recorded are now online and available to anyone. We are also...

Introducing the ElectionGuard Bounty program

Announcing the new ElectionGuard Bounty program The post Introducing the ElectionGuard Bounty program appeared first on Microsoft Security Response Center...

An intern’s experience with Rust

Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC, I worked on the safe systems programming languages SSPL team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog. My job was to port a security critical...

An intern's experience with Rust

Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC, I worked on the safe systems programming languages SSPL team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog. My job was to port a security critical...