🎤 BlueHat Redmond speaker announcement We're excited to announce Varsha Chahal and Henrique Pereira (@ikkebr), Senior Security Engineers at Microsoft, will be speaking at BlueHat Redmond with their talk, “Gotta Catch’em All: Hunting Azure Anonymous Functions in the Wild.” Azure Functions often expose anonymous HTTP endpoints, creating a broad and overlooked attack surface. In this session, Varsha and Henrique share how they identified and exploited vulnerabilities at scale, leading to 40+ MSRC cases, including multiple high-impact issues. From CodeQL to automated exploitation pipelines, learn how small misconfigurations can turn into critical cloud risks and how defenders can better secure serverless workloads. #BlueHat

We’re excited to announce our next BlueHat Asia speakers: Brian McNulty (@brianjmcnulty) and Cameron Vincent (@SecretlyHidden1)! Cameron is a Senior Security Researcher at Microsoft, specializing in vulnerabilities and mitigation within MSRC. From reproducing bug reports to variant hunting, Cameron has spent the last decade identifying and mitigating trends to protect the Microsoft ecosystem. His research focuses on authentication and authorization vulnerabilities, an area he’s been passionate about for over 10 years. Brian began making a name for himself through Meta’s bug bounty program and is just getting started. Currently a student at the University of Michigan, Brian has proven his skills as a 2025 MSRC intern and as a top player in the bug bounty world, ranking in Meta’s top 5 multiple times. He’s also working toward his master’s in computer science, continuing to push boundaries in security research. Their upcoming talk will take you inside the MSRC Vulnerabilities & Mitigations team, exploring how variant hunting and deep issue analysis help secure the Microsoft ecosystem. #BlueHatAsia

The Call for Papers is now open for BlueHat Asia in Bengaluru, India, taking place on November 5 - 6, 2025! This is your chance to showcase your thought leadership in vulnerability and mitigation, emerging security threats and techniques, novel research findings, calls-to-action for the security community, and more. ⬇️Submit your paper by September 5 ⬇️ aka.ms/bhasia25cfp Here are some suggested topics to inspire your submission (but don’t feel limited by them—we’re excited to see what you bring to the community!): ▸AI, Machine Learning, & Data Science ▸Applied Cryptography ▸Cybersecurity Careers ▸Cybersecurity Policy ▸Data Forensics & Incident Response ▸Detection Techniques at Scale ▸Exploit Development ▸Human Factors ▸IoT/OT & Critical Infrastructure Security ▸Physical Security ▸Quantum Security ▸Red Team/Blue Team Lessons Learned ▸Reverse Engineering ▸Virtualization and Container Security Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of BlueHat Asia. #BlueHatAsia