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...

Software Defense: mitigating heap corruption vulnerabilities

Heap corruption vulnerabilities are the most common type of vulnerability that Microsoft addresses through security updates today. These vulnerabilities typically occur as a result of programming mistakes that make it possible to write beyond the bounds of a heap buffer a spatial issue or to plac...

Congratulations to the top MSRC 2025 Q4 security researchers!

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’sMicrosoft Researcher Recognition Programleaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers...

Faye’s Journey: From Security PM to Diversity Advocate at Microsoft

Faye, a veteran at Microsoft for 22 years, has had a career as varied as it is long. Her journey began in 2002 as the first desktop security Project Manager PM in Microsoft IT. From there, she transitioned into owning a deployment team that deployed to desktops and handled operations for Office’s...

Microsoft Mitigates Three Vulnerabilities in Azure HDInsight

Summary Summary Microsoft recently remediated one Denial of Service and two Escalation of Privilege vulnerabilities affecting third party components of Azure HDInsight. Access to the target cluster as an authenticated user was a prerequisite for exploitation in all three cases. A successful...

Introducing the Microsoft Defender Bounty Program

We are excited to announce the new Microsoft Defender Bounty Program with awards of up to $20,000 USD. The Microsoft Defender brand encompasses a variety of products and services designed to enhance the security of the Microsoft customer experience. The Microsoft Defender Bounty Program invites...

Introducing the Microsoft AI Bug Bounty Program featuring the AI-powered Bing experience

Today at BlueHat we announced the new Microsoft AI bug bounty program with awards up to $15,000. This new bounty program features the AI-powered Bing experience as the first in scope product. The following products and integrations are eligible for bounty awards: AI-powered Bing experiences on...

レイヤー7の分散型サービス拒否 (DDoS) 攻撃に対するマイクロソフトの対応について

本ブログは、Microsoft Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service DDoS Attacks の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。...

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...

Hey Yara, find some vulnerabilities

Intro Finding vulnerabilities in software is no easy task by itself. Doing this at cloud scale is very challenging to perform manually, and we use tools to help us identify patterns or vulnerability signatures. Yara is one of those tools. Yara is a very popular tool with Blue teams, malware...

2023 年 5 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2023 年 5 月 9 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...

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...

Hunting for Cobalt Strike: Mining and plotting for fun and profit

Introduction Cobalt Strike is a commercial Command and Control framework built by Helpsystems. You can find out more about Cobalt Strike on the MITRE ATT&CK page. But it can also be used by real adversaries. In this post we describe how to use RiskIQ and other Microsoft technologies to see if you...

Curious, Innovative, Creative, Community Driven: Meet Cyb3rWard0g, Roberto Rodriquez

When I grow up I want to be? Dancer or a veterinarian Happiest memories: Tearing up the dance floor at weddings and playing soccer in the streets of Lima, Peru Previous Job roles: Mopped floors for McDonalds, packed boxes at an Avon warehouse, Manager at Olive Garden, Beer taster/server and then...

Vulnerability Fixed in Azure Synapse Spark

Summary: Microsoft takes a proactive approach to continually probe our defenses, hunt for vulnerabilities, and seek new, innovative ways to protect our customers. Security researchers are an important part of this effort, and our collaborative partnership is critical in a world where cybersecurit...

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...

Anatomy of a Cloud-Service Security Update

Our security teams around the world focus on identifying and mitigating security issues as soon as possible while minimizing customer disruption. One of the challenges of a traditional security update is ensuring customers apply the protections promptly. We recently discussed the work that goes...

Expanding High Impact Scenario Awards for Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs

We are excited to announce the addition of scenario-based bounty awards to the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Bounty Program and M365 Bounty Program. Through these new scenario-based bounty awards, we encourage researchers to focus their research on vulnerabilities that have the highest potentia...

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...

2022 年 2 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2022 年 2 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: 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:...

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 ...

Vulnerability Descriptions in the New Version of the Security Update Guide

With the launch of the new version of the Security Update Guide, Microsoft is demonstrating its commitment to industry standards by describing the vulnerabilities with the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS. This is a precise method that describes the vulnerability with attributes such as t...

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection の機械学習: 未知の侵入アクティビティの検出

本記事は、Windows Security のブログ “Windows Defender ATP machine learning: Detecting new and unusual breach activity” 2017 年 8 月 3 日 米...

SHA-1 ウェブサーバー証明書は警告！ウェブサイト管理者は影響の最終確認を

こんにちは、村木ゆりかです。 以前よりマイクロソフト セキュリティ アドバイザリ 2880823、そして、このブログでもご案内しているとおり、証明書に利用されているハッシュ アルゴリズム SHA-1 の安全性の低下に伴い、利用廃止が進められています。 マイクロソフトでは、2017 年 2 月 14 日 米国時間 2017 年中旬 2017 日 5 月 9 日 米国時間 より、SHA-1 の TLS サーバー証明書を利用するウェブサイトを、Microsoft Edge および Internet Explorer 11...

A shared responsibility: Protecting customers through Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure

In recent weeks several zero-day vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed. The details of these vulnerabilities were not shared with Microsoft prior to release, and the disclosures put our customers at unnecessary risk...

Understanding CVE-2025-55315: What CISOs, security engineers, and sysadmins should know

On October 14, 2025, Microsoft released a security update addressingCVE-2025-55315, a vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that allows HTTP request smuggling. While request smuggling is a known technique, this security update addresses a scenario with a high CVSS score to help encourage mitigation actio...

Zero Day Quest: Join the largest hacking event with up to $5 million in total bounty awards

Last year, we announced the largest hacking event in history: Zero Day Quest, with up to $4 million in bounty awards. The response from the global security community was incredible and helped improve security for our customers and partners. This year, Zero Day Quest is back with even more potenti...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2024 Q4 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 2024 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Suresh,...

Securing AI and Cloud with the Zero Day Quest

Our security teams work around the clock to help protect every person and organization on the planet from security threats. We also know that security is a team sport, and that’s why we also partner with the global security community through our bug bounty programs to proactively identify and...

Microsoft の調査 – 検証済みの発行者確認を悪用する脅威アクターの同意フィッシング キャンペーンについて

本ブログは、Microsoft Investigation – Threat actor consent phishing campaign abusing the verified publisher process の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してくださ...

Microsoft Mitigates Vulnerability in Jupyter Notebooks for Azure Cosmos DB

Summary Summary Microsoft recently fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in Jupyter Notebooks for Azure Cosmos DB currently in preview reported by Orca Security. Customers not using Jupyter Notebooks 99.8% of Azure Cosmos DB customers do NOT use Jupyter notebooks were not susceptible to th...

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

The Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs and partnerships with the global security research community are important parts of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending customers against security threats. Our bounty programs incentivize security research in high-impact areas to stay ahead of the...

Randomizing the KUSER_SHARED_DATA Structure on Windows

Windows 10 made a lot of improvements in Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization KASLR that increases the cost of exploitation, particularly for remote code execution exploits. Many kernel virtual address space VAS locations including kernel stacks, pools, system PTEs etc. are randomized. A...

Microsoft Internal Solorigate Investigation - Final Update

We believe the Solorigate incident is an opportunity to work with the community, to share information, strengthen defenses and respond to attacks. We have now completed our internal investigation into the activity of the actor and want to share our findings, which confirm that we found no evidenc...

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...

BlueHat Shanghai 2019: Amplifying the power of defensive partnerships around the world

Earlier this week BlueHat Shanghai brought together security researchers and hundreds of cybersecurity professionals from China and across Asia to explore the latest topics in cybersecurity research. Including presentations from Qihoo 360, Baidu, Alibaba and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, BlueH...

セキュリティ更新プログラムの情報を API で取得する方法を紹介するビデオを YouTube で公開しています

セキュリティ更新プログラムの情報は「セキュリティ更新プログラム ガイド」ダッシュボードから入手できるこ...

November 2017 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...

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...

MS15-011 & MS15-014: Hardening Group Policy

Today we are releasing MS15-011 & MS15-014 which harden group policy and address network access vulnerabilities that can be used to achieve remote code execution RCE in domain networks. The MS15-014 update addresses an issue in Group Policy update which can be used to disable client-side global S...

A note on this month's Patch Tuesday

Each Patch Tuesday looks a little different. Some months are quieter, others are larger. This month's release sits on the larger side of a hotpatch month, and we expect releases to continue trending larger for some time. Every update reflects investments we have made across the development...

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2025 Q1 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 2025 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard are 0x140ce,...

From Indiana Jones to Cybersecurity: The Inspiring Journey of Devin

As a young boy, Devin found himself captivated by the adventures of Indiana Jones, the whip-wielding archaeologist from the VHS movies his grandfather showed him. The thrill of unearthing history and the allure of the unknown ignited a spark in Devin, leading him to dream of becoming an...

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...

New Security Advisory Tab Added to the Microsoft Security Update Guide

Today, we are adding a new Security Advisory tab to the Security Update Guide to meet our customers’ needs for a unified and authoritative source for the latest public information about Microsoft security updates and issues. We are continuously listening to feedback from users of the Security...

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...

Reflecting on Cybersecurity Awareness Month: At its Core, Cybersecurity is all about People

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 comes to a close, I’m grateful for the impact it has had in bringing cybersecurity to the forefront since it began in 2004. Though the month may be over, our work in cybersecurity is never done. Often, we think about cybersecurity as a complex technology...

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...

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...