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, VictorV, wkai!

Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.  

Congratulations to the top Azure researchers this quarter: Suresh Chelladurai, 200D8A8F3C82E9097370B6831725C80B, Alireza Amirheidari!

Congratulations to the top Office researchers this quarter: Unpatched.ai, Haifei Li, 0x140ce!

Congratulations to the top Windows researchers this quarter: VictorV, wkai, Anonymous!

Congratulations to the top Dynamics researchers this quarter: Dhiral Patel (@dhiralpatel94), Brad Schlintz, Anonymous!

This 2024 Q4 leaderboard reflects point values for cases that are:

• Submitted and assessed by the MSRC team between October 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024

• Submitted and assessed by the MSRC team between July 1, 2024, and September 30, 2024 (last program period), but assessed after October 1, 2024

Past quarterly and annual leaderboard announcements:  

• MSRC 2024 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard

• MSRC 2024 Most Valuable Security Researcher Leaderboard

• MSRC 2024 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard

• MSRC 2024 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard

• MSRC 2023 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard

• MSRC 2023 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard

• MSRC 2023 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard  

• MSRC 2023 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard  

• MSRC 2023 Most Valuable Security Researcher Leaderboard

Keep up the awesome work and we look forward to seeing you next quarter!

Madeline Eckert, MSRC