Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime
WiredGovernments and the tech industry around the world have been scrambling in recent years to curb the rise of online scamming and cybercrime. Over the past decade, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit has forged its own strategies, both technical and legal, to investigate scams, take down criminal infrastructure, and block malicious traffic. The group has grown into the number one creator and vendor of fake Microsoft accounts—creating roughly 750 million scam accounts that the actor has sold for millions of dollars. The team obtained a court order from the Southern District of New York on December 7 to seize some of the criminal group’s digital infrastructure in the US and take down websites including the services 1stCAPTCHA, AnyCAPTCHA, and NoneCAPTCHA, as well as a site that sold fake Outlook accounts called Hotmailbox.me. A group with the name “Digital Crimes Unit” has existed at Microsoft since 2008, but the team in its current form took shape in 2013 when the old DCU merged with a Microsoft team known as the Intellectual Property Crimes Unit.
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