{"id":5892,"date":"2025-08-05T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/microsoft-announces-5-million-prize-pool-for-zero-day-quest-hacking-contest\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:03:49","slug":"microsoft-announces-5-million-prize-pool-for-zero-day-quest-hacking-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/microsoft-announces-5-million-prize-pool-for-zero-day-quest-hacking-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft increases Zero Day Quest prize pool to $5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Microsoft increases Zero Day Quest prize pool to $5 million<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Microsoft will offer up to $5 million in bounty awards at this year&#8217;s Zero Day Quest hacking contest, which the company describes as the &#8220;largest hacking event in history.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Sergiu Gatlan<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-announces-5-million-prize-pool-for-zero-day-quest-hacking-contest\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft increases Zero Day Quest prize pool to $5 million Microsoft will offer up to $5 million in bounty awards at this year&#8217;s Zero Day Quest hacking contest, which the company describes as the &#8220;largest hacking event in history.&#8221; [&#8230;] Sergiu Gatlan Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,158,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-microsoft","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}