"Microsoft's Defender Bounty Program: Earn up to $20,000 for Finding Bugs"

Microsoft has launched a bug bounty program called Microsoft Defender Bounty Program, offering rewards ranging from $500 to $20,000 for identifying vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Defender security platform. The program is currently limited to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint APIs but is expected to expand to include other Defender products in the future. The highest reward is for critical severity remote code execution vulnerabilities. Microsoft paid $58.9 million in rewards to security researchers worldwide across 22 bug bounty programs.