14 DAY TRIAL // Fighting software piracy has become a priority for the Redmond-based technology giant Microsoft so, in a new effort to combat piracy across the globe, the company has decided to create what it calls the Cybercrime Center.
The digital crimes and the software piracy teams will join in a single division that will employ 30 workers, Fox Business writes. They will collaborate with 70 other Microsoft investigators across the world to reduce piracy and proceed with legal actions against those suspected of shipping counterfeited software.
According to a report commissioned by Microsoft, customers using pirated content spend no less than 1.5 billion hours to repair their computers after getting infect with malware hidden in the illegal software.
“The cybercrime reality is that counterfeiters are tampering with the software code and lacing it with malware,” said David Finn, associate general counsel in the Microsoft Cybercrime Center.