DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research Trenches

From Phishing to Court Cases: How Microsoft Fights Back Against Hackers

June 23, 2026·52 min
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Send us fan mail! Hello to all our Cyber Pals! Host Selena Larson is joined by Sean Farrell, Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), to pull back the curtain on how major cyber crime takedowns actually happen and how Microsoft uses civil lawsuits, criminal referrals, and global partnerships to disrupt some of the most damaging cyber crime operations in the world. They discuss: What DCU does and Sean's path from FBI to AWS to MicrosoftHow civil claims like the CFAA ...

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