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Customer Guidance for the Dopplepaymer Ransomware

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Microsoft has been investigating recent attacks by malicious actors using the Dopplepaymerransomware. There is misleading information circulating about Microsoft Teams, along with references to RDP (BlueKeep), as ways in which this malware spreads. Our security research teams have investigated and found no evidence to support these claims. In our investigations we found that the malware relies on remote human operators using existing Domain Admin credentials to spread across an enterprise network.

• BlueKeep
• Doppepaymer
• Malware
• Microsoft Teams
• Ransomware
• RDP

November 2019 security updates are available!

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

We have released the November 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, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be out of extended support and no longer receiving updates as of January 14, 2020.

Microsoft Identity Bounty Improvements

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Microsoft is continually improving our existing bounty programs. Today we’re happy to share the latest updates to the Microsoft Identity Bounty. Originally launched in July 2018, the Microsoft Identity bounty program has helped build a partnership with the security research community to improve the security of customer and enterprise identity solutions across Azure, Windows, and OpenID standards.

• Bounty
• Community-based Defense
• Identity
• Security
• Security Research

Introducing the ElectionGuard Bounty program

Friday, October 18, 2019

Today we are launching the [ElectionGuard Bounty program](«http://www.microsoft.com/msrc/bounty-electionguard> >). In May 2019, we announced the release of ElectionGuard, a free open-source SDK to make voting more secure, transparent, and accessible. ElectionGuard enables end-to-end verification of elections, open results to third-party organizations for secure validation, and allows individual voters to confirm their votes were correctly counted.

• Bounty
• Community-based Defense
• Defending Democracy Program
• ElectionGuard
• Security
• Security Research

Announcing the Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard

Thursday, October 17, 2019

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

• Community-based Defense
• Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
• Researcher Recognition
• Security Researcher

October 2019 security updates are available!

Tuesday, October 08, 2019

We have released the October 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, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be out of extended support and no longer receiving updates as of January 14, 2020.

• Security Update

MSRC is going to ROOTCON!

Monday, September 23, 2019

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) works with partners all over the world to protect Microsoft customers. This week we’re headed to the Philippines to meet security researchers and bounty hunters at ROOTCON 13! Planning on attending ROOTCON? If you want to learn more about how you can earn rewards for reporting vulnerabilities to Microsoft bounty programs, you have two ways to connect with us there:

September 2019 Security Updates

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

We have released the September 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, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be out of extended support and no longer receiving updates as of January 14, 2020.

• Security Update
• Support Lifecycle

Announcing the Microsoft Edge Insider Bounty

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

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 version of Microsoft Edge, based on Chromium, and offer rewards up to US$30,000 for eligible vulnerabilities in Dev and Beta channels.

• Bounty
• Community-based Defense
• Microsoft Edge
• MSRC
• Security Research

August 2019 Security Updates

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

We have released the August 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, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be out of extended support and no longer receiving updates as of January 14, 2020.

• Security Update
• Support Lifecycle
• Windows