Job Description:
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 cybercrime, cyber-enabled fraud and scams, and other online threats. DCU sits in Customer Security & Trust (CST) within Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA). DCU takes affirmative action to proactively defend against online threats and actors. Since its inception, DCU has filed lawsuits against over 35 malware families, state-sponsored actors, and the developers of cybercrime tools and services (including Cybercrime-as-a-Service platforms). In this role you will investigate major cyber threats—including ransomware, malware, business email compromise (BEC), account takeovers, tech support fraud, and other online scams—while working alongside threat intelligence professionals, security engineers, and fraud investigators to build evidence against criminal and state-sponsored actors. As a DCU investigative expert, you will detect cybercrime, map malicious infrastructure, prevent misuse of Microsoft services, and help make the global online ecosystem safer.
