Microsoft has set up a new cybercrime centre, bringing together its legal and technical expertise as well as tools and technology with cross-industry expertise.
The Cybercrime Center will deal with online crimes including the use of malware and botnets, intellectual property theft and child porn.
The move is expected to help the tech giant handle the growing threat of cybercrime, which is affecting people across the globe in both personal and financial terms.
Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit associate general counsel David Finn said the Cybercrime Center is where the company’s experts come together with customers and partners to focus on keeping people safe online.
"By combining sophisticated tools and technology with the right skills and new perspectives, we can make the internet safer for everyone," Finn said.
Located on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington, the Cybercrime Center features new technologies to visualise and identify global cyberthreats in real time.
The technologies available at the centre include SitePrint, used for mapping of online organised crime networks, the anti-child-pornography technology PhotoDNA, global cybercrime detection technology cyberforensics, and cyberthreat intelligence from Microsoft.
At the centre, the company will join hands with third-party partners as well as worldwide cybersecurity experts including investigators, technical experts and forensic analysts.
