At Black Hat USA 2025, Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative presented the ZDI Vanguard Award to TecSecurity founder Rocco Calvi (@TecR0c) for Most Prolific Researcher – recognising the researcher with the highest number of contracted vulnerability cases with ZDI. The award was presented at Trend Micro’s booth as part of ZDI’s 20th anniversary celebrations.

By the Numbers

The award reflects over 300 remote code execution vulnerabilities reported to ZDI across a range of target categories:

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) announced the 2023 Most Valuable Security Researchers, recognising the top vulnerability researchers who reported high-impact security issues across Microsoft products during the July 2022 – June 2023 reporting period.

TecSecurity founder Rocco Calvi (@TecR0c) was named one of the top three Microsoft Office researchers for the year:

Congratulations to the top Office researchers this year: Mat Powell working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, zcgonvh, Rocco Calvi (@TecR0c)!