Awards & Recognition

NCC Group’s Jeremy Boone recognized for Highest Quality and Most Eligible Reports through the Intel Circuit Breaker program

Congratulations to NCC Group researcher Jeremy Boone, who was recently recognized for both the Highest Quality Report, as well as the Most Eligible Reports, as an invited researcher to the Intel Circuit Breaker program! From Intel: “This exclusive event invited a select group of security researchers to hunt vulnerabilities in…


NCC Group’s Juan Garrido named to Microsoft’s MSRC Office Security Researcher Leaderboard

Congratulations to NCC Group researcher Juan Garrido, who was recently named amongst Microsoft’s most valuable security researchers on the MSRC 2022 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard! This honour, recognized quarterly by the Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program, is offered to security researchers who have discovered and shared security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products…


NCC Group placed first in global 5G Cyber Security Hack competition

In June of this year, Traficom – the Finnish transport and communications agency – along with the Aalto University, Cisco, Ericsson, Nokia, and PwC, organized the 5G Cyber Security Hack competition. A similar event was organised in November 2019 in Oulu, Finland and this hackathon-style event was a follow-up to…


NCC Group researchers named amongst MSRC’s Most Valuable Security Researchers in 2020

Yesterday, the Microsoft Security Response Center announced their Most Valuable Security Researchers for 2020 (MVRs). This honour, awarded annually by Microsoft during Black Hat USA, is a part of MSRC’s Researcher Recognition program, and recognizes the top security researchers globally based upon the volume, accuracy, and impact of their vulnerability…