How Microsoft's 10-year-old Digital Crime Unit uses unique legal tactics and the company's technical reach to disrupt global cybercrime and state-backed actors
Ten years in, Microsoft's DCU has honed its strategy of using both unique legal tactics and the company's technical reach …
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Discussion
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@carlypage_
Carly Page
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Microsoft has disrupted Storm-1152, a cybercrime operation that sold fraudulent accounts to other groups, including Scattered Spider. It says Storm-1152's services have been used “to injure not just Microsoft” but also “X, Google and their customers” https://techcrunch.com/...
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@sixdub
Justin
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The Digital Crimes Unit (DCU)of Microsoft (w/Arkose Labs) has taken legal action against the individuals behind Storm-1152, the number one creator and seller of fraudulent Microsoft accounts. To date, Storm-1152 has created for sale ~750 million accts. https://blogs.microsoft.com…
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@itsreallynick
Nick Carr
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Watching the drastic impacts in real-time as the servers came down 🤌 Read more: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... [image]
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@msftsecintel
@msftsecintel
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Fraudulent online accounts act as the gateway to cybercrime, incl. phishing, identity theft & fraud, DDoS. Microsoft, w/ insights from Arkose Labs, is going after the number one seller & creator of fraudulent Microsoft accounts, a group we call Storm-1152: https://blogs.microsoft…