Security News > 2022 > June > Microsoft continues cyber security spending spree with Miburo buy

Microsoft has opened its wallet once more to pick up New York-based cyber-threat analyst Miburo.

The team is to be folded into Microsoft's Customer Security and Trust organization and the work of its analysts is to be fed into the Windows giants' threat detection and analysis capabilities.

"Miburo," said Microsoft, "Has become a leading expert in identification of foreign information operations." Its research teams have hunted out some nasty influence campaigns over 16 languages.

The shopping spree at Microsoft has resulted in a number of companies being added to its security portfolio in recent years.

"The new analysts from Miburo," wrote Tom Burt, corporate vice president for Customer Security and Trust at Microsoft, "Will enable Microsoft to expand its threat detection and analysis capabilities to address new cyberattacks and shed light on the ways in which foreign actors use information operations in conjunction with other cyber-attacks to achieve their objectives."

One can but hope those same analysts might also advise Microsoft on how best to more rapidly plug some of the holes in its own products, theoretically ripe for exploitation by miscreants seeking a way to distribute their disinformation.

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