The Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) is an international legal and technical team working with partners, to help create a safe digital ...

The Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) is an international legal and technical team working with partners, to help create a safe digital world. The DCU operates in conjunction with Internet Service Providers and Computer Emergency Response Teams to disrupt botnets from cybercriminals. These botnets can be involved in activities ranging from e-mail spam and click fraud to financial fraud and privacy invasion. After Microsoft disrupts these botnets, affected devices continue to call into Digital Crimes Unit allowing reporting and to notify those still affected by malware.