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Congratulations to the top MSRC 2025 Q2 security researchers!

Monday, July 07, 2025

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 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard are wkai, Brad Schlintz (nmdhkr), and 0x140ce! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.

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Rising star: Meet Dylan, MSRC’s youngest security researcher

Tuesday, July 01, 2025

At just 13 years old, Dylan became the youngest security researcher to collaborate with the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). His journey into cybersecurity is inspiring—rooted in curiosity, resilience, and a deep desire to make a difference. Early beginnings: From scratch to security Dylan’s fascination with technology began early. Like many kids, he started with Scratch—a visual programming language for making simple games and animations.

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RedirectionGuard: Mitigating unsafe junction traversal in Windows

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

As attackers continue to evolve, Microsoft is committed to staying ahead by not only responding to vulnerabilities, but also by anticipating and mitigating entire classes of threats. One such threat, filesystem redirection attacks, has been a persistent vector for privilege escalation. In response, we’ve developed and deployed a new mitigation in Windows 11 called RedirectionGuard.

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Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2025 Q1 Security Researchers!

Friday, May 09, 2025

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, VictorV, Vaisha Bernard of Eye Security! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.

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Zero Day Quest 2025: $1.6 million awarded for vulnerability research

Monday, April 21, 2025

This month, the Microsoft Security Response Center recently welcomed some of the world’s most talented security researchers at Microsoft’s Zero Day Quest, the largest live hacking competition of its kind. The inaugural event challenged the security community to focus on the highest-impact security scenarios for Copilot and Cloud with up to $4 million in potential awards.

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