Microsoft Security Response Center Blog

Introducing the MSRC Researcher Resource Center

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

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 security of our products and services. We’re always looking for ways to build upon this partnership, and with that goal in mind, we are excited to announce the creation of the MSRC Researcher Resource Center.

• Security Researcher

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2024 Q2 Security Researchers!

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

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 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen, Lewis Lee & Ver & Zhiniang Peng, and Wei!

• Bounty
• Bug Bounty Programs
• Bug Bounty
• Community-based Defense
• Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
• Researcher Recognition
• Security Researcher

Announcing the CVRF API 3.0 upgrade

Thursday, July 11, 2024

At the Microsoft Security Response Center, we are committed to continuously improving the security and performance of our services to meet the evolving needs of our customers. We are excited to announce the rollout of the latest version of our Common Vulnerability Reporting (CVRF) API. This update brings improvements in both security and performance, without requiring any changes to your existing invocation methods.

What’s new in the MSRC Report Abuse Portal and API

Wednesday, July 03, 2024

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) has always been at the forefront of addressing cyber threats, privacy issues, and abuse arising from Microsoft Online Services. Building on our commitment, we have introduced several updates to the Report Abuse Portal and API, which will significantly improve the way we handle and respond to abuse reports.

• Report Abuse
• Report Abuse API
• Report Abuse Portal

Toward greater transparency: Unveiling Cloud Service CVEs

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Welcome to the second installment in our series on transparency at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). In this ongoing discussion, we discuss our commitment to provide comprehensive vulnerability information to our customers. At MSRC, our mission is to protect our customers, communities, and Microsoft, from current and emerging threats to security and privacy.

• Security Update Guide

Mitigating SSRF Vulnerabilities Impacting Azure Machine Learning

Monday, June 17, 2024

Summary On May 9, 2024, Microsoft successfully addressed multiple vulnerabilities within the Azure Machine Learning (AML) service, which were initially discovered by security research firms Wiz and Tenable. These vulnerabilities, which included Server-Side Request Forgeries (SSRF) and a path traversal vulnerability, posed potential risks for information exposure and service disruption via Denial-of-Service (DOS).

• MSRC
• CVD

Improved Guidance for Azure Network Service Tags

Monday, June 03, 2024

Summary Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) was notified in January 2024 by our industry partner, Tenable Inc., about the potential for cross-tenant access to web resources using the service tags feature. Microsoft acknowledged that Tenable provided a valuable contribution to the Azure community by highlighting that it can be easily misunderstood how to use service tags and their intended purpose.

• Azure
• Network infrastructure

Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2024 Q1 Security Researchers! 

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

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 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen, VictorV, and Nitesh Surana! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.

• Researcher Recognition
• Security Research
• Community-based Defense
• Security Researcher

Toward greater transparency: Adopting the CWE standard for Microsoft CVEs

Monday, April 08, 2024

At the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), our mission is to protect our customers, communities, and Microsoft from current and emerging threats to security and privacy. One way we achieve this is by determining the root cause of security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and services. We use this information to identify vulnerability trends and provide this data to our Product Engineering teams to enable them to systematically understand and eradicate security risks.

• Security Update Guide

Embracing innovation: Derrick’s transition from banking to Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team

Tuesday, April 02, 2024

Meet Derrick, a Senior Program Manager on the Operational Threat Intelligence team at Microsoft. Derrick’s role involves understanding and roadmapping the complete set of tools that Threat Intel analysts use to collect, analyze, process, and disseminate threat intelligence across Microsoft. Derrick’s love of learning and his natural curiosity led him to a career in technology and ultimately, to his current role at Microsoft.