Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has an immediate opening for a highly qualified cybercrime investigator to immediately handle global investigations and drive high-impact disruption operations targeting sophisticated cybercriminal networks and online threat groups in the role of Digital Crimes Unit Technical Investigator. DCU embodies Microsoft’s commitment to security and continues to innovate and evolve to combat the increasingly sophisticated actors operating in cyberspace. This role will focus on proactive, technical investigations of cyberattacks and threats directed at Microsoft, its customers, and democratic institutions, including those abusing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for malicious motives.

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit

Microsoft’s DCU is a global team of attorneys, investigators, and analysts committed to leading the fight against cybercrime to protect our customers and promote global trust in Microsoft.   Through strategic partnerships with Microsoft’s unparalleled Threat Intelligence community, fraud and abuse teams, and engineering support, DCU develops and employs innovative legal and technical strategies to detect, disrupt, and deter cybercriminals, nation-state actors, and cyber-enabled fraud actors. DCU sits in Customer Security & Trust (CST) within Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA).

DCU takes affirmative action to defend against online threats and actors. Since its inception, DCU has filed lawsuits against approximately 30 malware families, nation state actors and the developers of prolific cybercrime tools (including cybercrime-as-a-service). (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHArmtKHAv8).

The Role

DCU is searching for a technically skilled investigator to join our agile and dedicated team. Candidates should have a demonstrated interest in expanding their skills into new areas and cutting-edge technology, including AI, and commitment to the unique mission of DCU. AI has the potential to change the world, and Microsoft is committed to advancing ethical principles about its use and to identifying and combatting its misuse. Moreover, technology quickly changes, as do the threats and malicious activity. The candidate should be able to thrive in ambiguity, identify critical stakeholders, and deliver results under time constraints. 

In this role, you will confront some of the most prolific cybercrimes, including ransomware and other malware, business email compromise (BEC) and account takeover attacks, tech support fraud, and the array of online scams, and some of the most sophisticated cyber actors, including financially motivated networks and state-sponsored groups. You will have the opportunity to work side-by-side and collaborate with world-class threat intelligence and security professionals, security engineers, and fraud and abuse analysts and investigators on investigations of complex cybercrime activity and to develop and compile evidence to build affirmative cases against sophisticated online criminal networks and nation-state actors.  You will serve as one of DCU’s investigativors on cybercrime detection, identifying and mapping malicious technical infrastructure, preventing unauthorized access and misuse of Microsoft services, and protecting customers. You will collaborate closely with various security teams across the company to help drive strategies to investigate and disrupt cybercrime to protect our service and customers. Most significantly, you will make the online ecosystem a safer place for users globally.