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Russia’s African coup strategy - Microsoft Threat Analysis Center shares report on Russian influence operations in Africa, focusing on the Niger coup (blogs.microsoft.com)
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[–] UlfKirsten@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Microsoft has a threat analysis center?

[–] TokenBoomer@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

What do you think Clippy does in sleep mode?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

These days it’s more a concept than a place; the employees are almost all remote workers.

[–] ricecooker@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Cybersecurity mainly for their customers. I guess the data they gather can show trends. Fuckin' gov-sponsored hackers, man.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you think the military pays them billions in ambiguous contracts?

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Because they don't want to move past Windows 3.1?