EMET 4.0 now available for download

We are pleased to announce that the final release of version 4.0 of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit , best known as EMET, is now finally available for download. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273. We already mentioned some of the new...

Stateless, but not forgetful: How LLMs can whisper to their future selves

Based on the research paper: “Stateless Yet Not Forgetful: Implicit Memory as a Hidden Channel in LLMs” published at the4th IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning SaTML, 2026...

Microsoft Bounty Program year in review More than $20 million awarded in our biggest year yet

This year, the Microsoft Bounty Program awarded more than$20 millionto562 security researchers, the highest total payout and the largest number of researchers recognized in the program's history. Researchers from64 countriescontributed findings that helped protect customers worldwide...

.NET Bounty Program now offers up to $40,000 in awards

We’re excited to announce significant updates to the Microsoft .NET Bounty Program. These changes expand the program’s scope, simplify the award structure, and offer great incentives for security researchers. The .NET Bounty Program now offers awards up to $40,000 USD for vulnerabilities impactin...

Jailbreaking is (mostly) simpler than you think

Content warning: This blog post contains discussions of sensitive topics. These subjects may be distressing or triggering for some readers. Reader discretion is advised. Today, we are sharing insights on a simple, optimization-free jailbreak method called Context Compliance Attack CCA, that has...

Introducing the MSRC Researcher Resource Center

Microsoft partners with the global security researcher community to surface and report security vulnerabilities to protect all users of Microsoft products and services. Researcher submissions help us address immediate threats while also identifying trends and insights to holistically improve the...

An Obsession With Impact: The Inspiring Journey of a Dreamer That Led to a Career at Microsoft

Bruce’s story unfolds in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a young boy, he had an ambitious dream of one day becoming the President of the United States. This aspiration remained his guiding star until he began his professional career after college. His mother, amused by his...

Microsoft mitigates set of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Azure Bastion and Azure Container Registry

Summary Summary Microsoft recently mitigated a set of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities affecting Azure Bastion and Azure Container Registry ACR. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could have potentially allowed for an unauthorized user to gain access to a target users session within the...

2023 年 2 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2023 年 2 月 14 日 米国時間 、マイクロソフトは、マイクロソフト製品に影響する脆弱性を修正するために、セキ...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2022 Q3 Security Researchers!

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2022 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Zhiyi Zha...

Improvements in Security Update Notifications Delivery – And a New Delivery Method

At MSRC, we are passionate about ensuring our customers have a positive experience when they use the Microsoft Security Update Guide SUG. A big part of improving that experience is ensuring that customers have timely and easily accessible notifications. As such we have two important announcements...

Congratulations to the MSRC 2022 Most Valuable Researchers!

The Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and recognition to security researchers who help protect our customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s top 100 Most...

2022 年 4 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2022 年 4 月 12 日（米国時間）、マイクロソフトは、マイクロソフト製品に影響する脆弱性を修正するために、セキ...

Randomizing the KUSER_SHARED_DATA Structure on Windows

Opps, this post exists, but was actually published 4/5/2022. Were navigating you to the correct page now. If that doesnt work click the link below: Randomizing the KUSERSHAREDDATA Structure on Windows – Microsoft Security Response Center...

Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) 導入ガイド (日本語版)

Active Directory 管理者のみなさん、Local Administrator Password Solution LAPS ツールはご存じですか? LAPS ツールは、Active Directory AD に参加して...

Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs Year in Review: $13.7M in Rewards

Security researchers are a vital component of the cybersecurity ecosystem that safeguards every facet of digital life and commerce. The researchers who devote time to uncovering and reporting security issues before adversaries can exploit them have earned our collective respect and gratitude. The...

Microsoft Joins Open Source Security Foundation

Microsoft has invested in the security of open source software for many years and today I’m excited to share that Microsoft is joining industry partners to create the Open Source Security Foundation OpenSSF, a new cross-industry collaboration hosted at the Linux Foundation. The OpenSSF brings...

Windows 堅牢化のためのセキュリティ構成フレームワーク (Security Configuration Framework: SecCon)

マイクロソフトによく寄せられる質問のひとつに、「マイクロソフトが推奨するセキュリティ構成や各設定項目...

Vulnerability hunting with Semmle QL: DOM XSS

In two previous blog posts part 1 and part 2, we talked about using Semmle QL in C and C++ codebases to find vulnerabilities such as integer overflow, path traversal, and those leading to memory corruption. In this post, we will explore applying Semmle QL to web security by hunting for one of­­­...

Attacking the VM Worker Process

In the past year we invested a lot of time making Hyper-V research more accessible to everyone. Our first blog post, “First Steps in Hyper-V Research”, describes the tools and setup for debugging the hypervisor and examines the interesting attack surfaces of the virtualization stack components. W...

BlueHat Shanghai 2019 Call for Papers is Now Open!

We know security experts with diverse skills and experiences are found around the world. This year, the BlueHat Security Conference is coming to Shanghai! BlueHat Shanghai 2019 will take place on May 29-30 at W Shanghai - The Bund. We want to provide a venue for security researchers to come...

EMET 5.52 update is now available

EMET 5.52 is the latest version of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET and is now available for download. EMET 5.52 is a minor update from EMET 5.51 to address the following: An issue with the EAF mitigation that causes some applications to hang on Windows 7 SP1. A fix to the MSI...

Strengthening secure software at global scale: How MSRC is evolving with AI

Cybersecurity has always been a race between defenders and attackers, constrained by human time, attention, and scale. What is changing now is the level of capability available to apply security fundamentals with far greater reach and speed...

URL Threat Detection: How Scanning Code Comments Prevented a Supply Chain Attack

Software supply chain attacks have become one of the most dangerous vectors for compromising enterprise and government systems. In 2025, Microsoft's security infrastructure detected a subtle but dangerous threat: a typo squatted URL embedded in...

Toward greater transparency: Publishing machine-readable CSAF files

Welcome to the third installment in our series on transparency at the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC. In this ongoing discussion, we talk about our commitment to providing comprehensive vulnerability information to our customers. At MSRC, our mission is to protect our customers,...

Microsoft Vulnerability Severity Classification for Online Services Publication

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC is always looking for ways to provide clarity and transparency around how we assess the impact of vulnerabilities reported in our products and services. We have published a new Microsoft Vulnerability Severity Classification for Online Services to provi...

Microsoft resolves four SSRF vulnerabilities in Azure cloud services

Summary Microsoft recently fixed a set of Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF vulnerabilities in four Azure services Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Digital Twins reported by Orca Security. These SSRF vulnerabilities were determined to be low risk as they do...

Publishing CBL-Mariner CVEs on the Security Update Guide CVRF API

Microsoft is pleased to announce that beginning January 11, 2023, we will publish CBL-Mariner CVEs in the Security Update Guide SUG Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework CVRF API. CBL-Mariner is a Linux distribution built by Microsoft to power Azure’s cloud and edge products and services and i...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2022 Q3 Security Researchers!

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2022 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Zhiyi...

Microsoft Storage Location における構成の誤りに関する調査

本ブログは、Investigation Regarding Misconfigured Microsoft Storage Locationの抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照し...

潜在的な Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) v1 Web クライアント リスクに関する認識とガイダンス

本ブログは、Awareness and guidance related to potential Service Fabric Explorer SFX v1 web client riskの抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照し...

BlueHat 2023 Call for Papers is Now Open!

For nearly 20 years, BlueHat has been where the security research community, and Microsoft security professionals come together as peers, to share, debate, challenge, learn, and exchange ideas in the interest of creating a safer and more secure world for all. We are extremely excited to announce...

Defense-in-Depth Updates for Azure Identity libraries and Azure Key Vault libraries within Azure SDK plus Best Practice Implementation Guidance

Summary Today, Microsoft released new versions of the Azure Key Vault libraries and Azure Identity libraries as part of the Azure Software Development Kit SDK that includes defense-in-depth feature improvements. We also published best practice guidance to help protect applications and services th...

What’s the smallest variety of CHERI?

The Portmeirion project is a collaboration between Microsoft Research Cambridge, Microsoft Security Response Center, and Azure Silicon Engineering & Solutions. Over the past year, we have been exploring how to scale the key ideas from CHERI down to tiny cores on the scale of the cheapest...

Congratulations to the MSRC 2022 Most Valuable Researchers!

The Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and recognition to security researchers who help protect our customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s top 100 Most...

Microsoft Office to publish symbols starting August 2022

We are excited to announce that Microsoft Office will begin publishing Office symbols for Windows via the Microsoft Public Symbol Server on August 9th 2022. The publication of Office symbols is a part of our continuing investment to improve security and performance for customers and partners. Key...

Microsoft Office to publish symbols starting August 2022

We are excited to announce that Microsoft Office will begin publishing Office symbols for Windows via the Microsoft Public Symbol Server on August 9th 2022. The publication of Office symbols is a part of our continuing investment to improve security and performance for customers and partners. Key...

A Man of Action: Meet Callum Carney

Hidden Talents : He was a competitive swimmer for many years. Instrument of Choice : His fingers were made for the keyboard, but he used to play the trumpet. 5 pieces of entertainment for the rest of his life : The Office, World War Z, The Matrix, Breaking Bad, The Thick of It...

Randomizing the KUSER_SHARED_DATA Structure on Windows

Opps, this post exists, but was actually published 4/5/2022. Were navigating you to the correct page now. If that doesnt work click the link below: Randomizing the KUSERSHAREDDATA Structure on Windows – Microsoft Security Response Center...

Randomizing the KUSER_SHARED_DATA Structure on Windows

Opps, this post exists, but was actually published 4/5/2022. We're navigating you to the correct page now. If that doesn't work click the link below: Randomizing the KUSERSHAREDDATA Structure on Windows – Microsoft Security Response Center...

2022 年 3 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2022 年 3 月 8 日（米国時間）、マイクロソフトは、マイクロソフト製品に影響する脆弱性を修正するために、セキ...

Researcher Spotlight: Cyber Viking Nate Warfield is Here to Help

“There are few jobs where I can say, I make two billion people more secure on the internet every single day.” Childhood Look: Goth kid, all in black Current Look: Cyber Viking Childhood hobby: Head banging to Metallica, Marilyn Manson, and Guns N’ Roses Current hobby: n0x08 DJ’s Live events aroun...

Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Nestori Syynimaa’s Constant Mission Protecting Identities

"When you find the things I find, they really matter. They affect everybody’s security.” Currently streaming: The Expanse and Lost in Space on Netflix Currently listening to: Amorphis, Architects, and Killswitch Engage Currently running: 130 kilometers or 80 miles a month Currently playing:...

MSRC Security Researcher Recognition: 2021

Wondering how to get into the 2021 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researcher list and get recognized during the Black Hat USA this August? Read on to learn more about the different paths you can take to get into the top researcher tiers. The MSRC Most Valuable Security Researcher MVR and MSRC...

Building Faster AMD64 Memset Routines

Over the past several years, Microsoft has rolled out several changes that result in more memory being zeroed. These mitigations include: The InitAll mitigation which zeros most stack variables Switching most Microsoft kernel code over to the ExAllocatePool2/ExAllocatePool3 API’s which zero memor...

Inside the MSRC – Customer-centric incident response

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC is an integral part of Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Center CDOC that brings together security response experts from across the company to help protect, detect, and respond to threats in real-time. Staffed with dedicated teams 24x7, the CDOC has...

2020 年 IE, Edge で TLS 1.0, 1.1 での接続無効化。確認を！

こんにちは、垣内ゆりかです。 マイクロソフトでは、Transport Layer Security TLS 1.0, 1.1 の利用を廃止し、より安全...

Microsoft Security Servicing Criteria for Windows

One of our goals in the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC is to be more transparent with security researchers and our customers on the criteria we use for determining when we intend to address a reported vulnerability through a security update. Our belief is that improving transparency on...

Microsoft’s Top 100 Security Researchers – Black Hat 2018 Edition

This morning we are excited to unveil the security researcher leaderboard at the Black Hat Security Conference. This list recognizes the top security researchers who have contributed research to the Microsoft products and services. If you are curious on how we build the list, check out our blog...

BlueHat v18 Announced & Call for Papers Opens

We are back! Microsoft is excited to announce the next installment of the BlueHat Security Conference – BlueHat v18. We will be holding the event at Microsoft’s headquarter campus September 25-27, 2018. This year we are adding the option for workshops and networking on the first day prior to the...