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 Microsoft
How civil claims like the CFAA and RICO are used to seize infrastructure
The Fox Tempest takedown and its ties to Rhysida ransomware
The global disruption of the Tycoon 2FA phishing-as-a-service operation
How targets get chosen, and civil vs. criminal action
Why naming victims changes the public narrative on cyber crime
Arrests tied to Octo Tempest/Scattered Spider
The risks of AI-generated sloppiness in legal and threat intel work
Disrupting cyber crime isn't about ending it for good, it's about raising the cost of doing business until bad actors run out of road.
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