Microsoft said Monday that it had seized 42 websites from a Chinese hacker group in order to disrupt the group’s intelligence activities. The company said in a press release that a federal court in Virginia has granted Microsoft’s motion to allow its digital crimes division to take over US-based websites run by a hacking group called Nickel or APT15. The company redirects website traffic to secure Microsoft servers to “help us protect existing and future victims while learning more about Nickel’s activities”. Microsoft said it had tracked Nickel since 2016 and found that its “sophisticated” attacks were aimed at installing...