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Cyber threat activity in Ukraine: analysis and resources
UPDATE 27 Apr 2022: See Updated malware details and Microsoft security product detections below as discussed in the Special Report: Ukraine. UPDATE 02 MAR 2022: See Updated malware details and Microsoft security product detections below for additional insights and protections specific to the...
Expanding the Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program
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 expanding the program to recognize more...
An Armful of CHERIs
Today, Arm announced that the first silicon supporting the Morello prototype architecture, a research project led by Arm, Microsoft, University of Cambridge and others, is now available on a limited run of demonstration boards, which are being shipped from today to industry partners for testing...
An Armful of CHERIs
Today, Arm announced that the first silicon supporting the Morello prototype architecture, a research project led by Arm, Microsoft, University of Cambridge and others, is now available on a limited run of demonstration boards, which are being shipped from today to industry partners for testing...
2022 年 1 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2022 年 1 月 11 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: 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 :...
We’re Excited to Announce the Launch of Comms Hub!
We are excited to announce the launch of Comms Hub to the Researcher Portal submission experience! With this launch, security researchers will be able to streamline communication with MSRC case SPMs case managers, attach additional files, track case and bug bounty status all in the Researcher...
Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2021 Q3 Security Researchers!
Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s MSRC Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2021 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: BugHunter010 8...
Power Platform is Here! Introducing the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Bug Bounty Program
Microsoft is excited to announce the addition of Power Platform to the newly rebranded Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Bounty Program. Through this expanded program, we encourage researchers to discover and report high impact security vulnerabilities they may find in the new Power Platform scope ...
Announcing the Launch of the Azure SSRF Security Research Challenge
Microsoft is excited to announce the launch of a new, three-month security research challenge under the Azure Security Lab initiative. The Azure Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF Research Challenge invites security researchers to discover and share high impact SSRF vulnerabilities in Microsoft...
Congratulations to the MSRC 2021 Most Valuable Security Researchers!
The MSRC Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and acknowledgement to the researchers who help protect customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s Most Valuable Security...
Introducing Bounty Awards for Teams Desktop Client Security Research
Partnering with the security research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. As much of the world has shifted to working from home in the last year, Microsoft Teams has enabled people to stay connected, organized, and collaborate...
New and Improved Report Abuse Portal and API!
The Report Abuse CERT Portal and Report Abuse API have played a significant role in MSRC’s response to suspected cyberattacks, privacy issues, and abuse originating from Microsoft Online Services. With the contributions from our wonderful community of reporters, we continue to gain insightful...
Microsoft Internal Solorigate Investigation Update
As we said in our recent blog, we believe the Solorigate incident is an opportunity to work together in important ways, to share information, strengthen defenses and respond to attacks. Like other SolarWinds customers, we have been actively looking for indicators of the Solorigate actor and want ...
Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks
Note: we are updating as the investigation continues. Revision history listed at the bottom. This post contains technical details about the methods of the actor we believe was involved in Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks, with the goal to enable the broader security community to hunt for activit...
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...
New and improved Security Update Guide!
We’re excited to announce a significant update to the Security Update Guide, our one-stop site for information about all security updates provided by Microsoft. This new version will provide a more intuitive user experience to help protect our customers regardless of what Microsoft products or...
Congratulations to the MSRC’s 2020 Most Valuable Security Researchers
Today we announce our Most Valuable Security Researchers for 2020! The MSRC Researcher Recognition program is an integral aspect of recognizing the ongoing partnerships with our community of talented security researchers who report through Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD. These...
安心・安全に利用するために : 基本のセキュリティ設定を確認しましょう (Windows 10)
昨今は、リモートワークのために、企業や組織で新たに持ち出し用デバイスを展開したり、あるいは、個人で所...
[サイバーセキュリティ月間2020] 製品のサポートが終了したらどうなるの？
2020 年 1 月に、広く利用されてきた Windows 7, Windows Server 2008/2008R2 のサポートが終了して既に数か月が過ぎました。サポートが終了す...
Recognizing Security Researchers in 2020
Is it too early to talk about the 2020 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researchers? Five months from now, at the end of June, the program period closes for researchers to be considered for inclusion in the Most Valuable Researchers list. The top researcher list will be revealed at Black Hat North...
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...
December 2019 security updates are available
We have released the December 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. As a reminder,...
2019 年 11 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2019 年 11 月 13 日 日本時間、マイクロソフトは以下のソフトウェアのセキュリティ更新プログラムを公開しまし...
Announcing the Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard
Right before Black Hat USA 2019, we announced our new researcher recognition program, and at Black Hat we announced the top researchers from the previous twelve months. Since it’s easier to track your progress with regular updates than with just an annual report, we are excited to...
[AD管理者向け] 2020 年 LDAP 署名と LDAP チャネルバインディングが有効化。確認を！
こんにちは、セキュリティ レスポンスチームの垣内ゆりかです。 2019 年 8 月に公開したセキュリティ アドバイザリ...
2019 年 9 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2019 年 9 月 11 日 日本時間、マイクロソフトは以下のソフトウェアのセキュリティ更新プログラムを公開しまし...
Acquiring a VHD to Investigate
In a previous post we described some of the differences between on-premises/physical forensics and cyber investigations and those performed in the cloud, and how this can make cloud forensics challenging. That blog post described a method of creating and maintaining a VM image which can be...
Scalable infrastructure for investigations and incident response
Traditional computer forensics and cyber investigations are as relevant in the cloud as they are in on-premise environments, but the methods in which to access and perform such investigations differ. This post will describe some of the challenges of bringing on-premises forensics techniques to th...
Announcing the Microsoft Edge Insider Bounty
This week, we released the first Beta preview of the next version of Microsoft Edge. Alongside this, Microsoft is excited to announce the launch of the Microsoft Edge Insider Bounty Program. We welcome researchers to seek out and disclose any high impact vulnerabilities they may find in the next...
Recognizing Security Researchers in 2019
Who’s going to be on the Most Valuable Security Researcher list at Black Hat USA 2019? We’re not announcing the names—yet—but this is how we’ll determine who’s there. How do we define the Most Valuable Security Researchers? The list at Black Hat will be the top tier of researchers based on not ju...
We need a safer systems programming language
In our first post in this series, we discussed the need for proactively addressing memory safety issues. Tools and guidance are demonstrably not preventing this class of vulnerabilities; memory safety issues have represented almost the same proportion of vulnerabilities assigned a CVE for over a...
A proactive approach to more secure code
What if we could eliminate an entire class of vulnerabilities before they ever happened? Since 2004, the Microsoft Security Response Centre MSRC has triaged every reported Microsoft security vulnerability. From all that triage one astonishing fact sticks out: as Matt Miller discussed in his 2019...
June 2019 security update release
Today, we released 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 on the Security Update Guide...
Time travel debugging: It’s a blast! (from the past)
The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC works to assess vulnerabilities that are externally reported to us as quickly as possible, but time can be lost if we have to confirm details of the repro steps or environment with the researcher to reproduce the vulnerability. Microsoft has made our...
2019 年 5 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2019 年 5 月 15 日 日本時間、マイクロソフトは以下のソフトウェアのセキュリティ更新プログラムを公開しまし...
April 2019 Security Update Release
Today, we released 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 on the Security Update Guide. Tags Security Advisory Securi...
Announcing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Bounty program
The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC is pleased to announce the launch of the Azure DevOps Bounty program, a program dedicated to providing rock-solid security for our DevOps customers. Starting January 17, 2019, we’re excited to offer rewards up to US$20,000 for eligible vulnerabilities i...
September 2018 Security Update Release
Today, we released 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. MSRC team...
2018 年 10 月 Office 365 で TLS 1.0, 1.1 での接続無効化。 最終確認を！
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...
Announcing the BlueHat v18 Schedule
Where did the summer go? This year the BlueHat Security Conference moved forward in the schedule to late September. Next year it will settle into a steady orbit of early October moving forward. With that change in schedule, it is hard to believe that it is time to reveal the schedule for BlueHat...
Announcing Changes to Microsoft’s Mitigation Bypass Bounty
Today we’re announcing a change to the Mitigation Bypass Bounty that removes Control Flow Guard CFG from the set of in-scope mitigations. In this blog, we’ll provide additional background and explain why we’re making this change. Mitigation Bypass Bounty Background Microsoft started the Mitigatio...
Recognizing Q3 Top 5 Bounty Hunters
Throughout the year, security researchers submit some amazing work to us under the Microsoft Bug Bounty program. Starting this quarter, we want to give a shout out to and acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the following individuals and companies who have contributed to securing Microsoft...
Mitigating speculative execution side channel hardware vulnerabilities
On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. If you haven’t had a chanc...
Speculative Execution Bounty Launch
Today, Microsoft is announcing the launch of a limited-time bounty program for speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. This new class of vulnerabilities was disclosed in January 2018 and represented a major advancement in the research in this field. In recognition of that threat...
March 2018 security update release
Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. By default, Windows 10 receives these updates automatically, and for customers running previous versions, we recommend they turn on automatic updates as a best practice. More information about this...
2018 年 3 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2018 年 3 月 14 日 日本時間、マイクロソフトは以下のソフトウェアのセキュリティ更新プログラムを公開しまし...
マイクロソフト、法執行機関などとの連携により Gamarue (Andromeda) を撲滅
本記事は、Microsoft Secure ブログ “Microsoft teams up with law enforcement and other partners to disrupt Gamarue Andromeda...