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> Inside Microsoft’s new headquarters for the fight against cybercrime. █
> The new Cybercrime Center is a real-life showcase for what Microsoft’s business intelligence and big data tools can do.█
> Part of the reason the DCU team’s cases would never fit cleanly into a 30-minute television show, or even a two-hour movie, is that their work is deeply complicated. That said, the team has also had its share of Hollywood endings, including taking down a massive botnet; shining a light on the activities of international pirates, counterfeiters and criminals; and helping to fight child exploitation.
The team develops tools and techniques to track and catch cybercriminals of all stripes, and shares those with law enforcement from around the world. So far, Microsoft has helped take down or otherwise hobble seven botnets with ties to criminal organizations. A team of researchers at Microsoft, in cooperation with Dartmouth College, also developed PhotoDNA, a technology that creates a unique, fingerprint- like signature for digital images which can help in finding copies of an image. PhotoDNA was donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the tool is used by Facebook, Twitter, and other companies to find, report and eliminate thousands of online images of child pornography that would have otherwise gone undetected.
It’s an important partnership for global law enforcement, says Noboru Nakatani, executive director for INTERPOL’s Global Complex for Innovation.
Law enforcement agencies are often “reluctant to use new techniques,” and don’t always maximize current technology, Nakatani says. Criminals, however, are certainly maximizing the benefits of technology in their wrongdoing. With Microsoft’s guidance, police organizations can optimize the latest technology to pursue criminals who are using the same.
“We are looking at the same issues, which are quite global, and we have to coordinate a global response,” Nakatani says. (The new Cybercrime Center) “is a great sign that Microsoft is serious about (fighting) cybercrime, and serious about working with law enforcement.”
As with the take-down of the Citadel botnet, millions of people and businesses as well as the Internet-at-large stand to benefit from the company’s fight against cybercrime.█
> “Western Europe was by far the highest rate of infection,” Patel says.
On the map, Russia and Ukraine are nearly free of lights; that’s where the malware emerged.
“Most of this is the orchestration of a criminal gang there, and there are no malware attacks there because when they wrote the code for their botnet, they wrote it so it doesn’t run on Ukrainian or Russian language software,” Finn says. “The bad guys knew that would significantly insulate them from law enforcement in their own country. It also illustrates why it’s important to have a global force against cybercrime.”
And now, these veteran cybercrime fighters have a Hollywood-style, superhero-grade headquarters. The Cybercrime Center is a world-class command center for a team at the forefront of global internet security, Smith says.
“We’re defining a new field,” Smith says. “And we’re using our software, our data, our cloud services and our devices to help do that.”█
Photos by Daniel Victor, Richard Worsfold, and Benjamin Benschneider / © Microsoft
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