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Microsoft hijacks 42 sites from a Chinese hacker group

December 7, 2021
Source: worldnationnews.com worldnationnews.com
News Snapshot:
On Monday, Microsoft said it had hijacked 42 websites of the Chinese hacker group to thwart the work of the intelligence-gathering group. The company said in a press release that a federal court in Virginia granted Microsoft’s request to allow its digital crime unit to hijack US websites run by a hacker group known as Nickel or APT15. The company redirects website traffic to Microsoft’s secure servers to “help us protect existing and future victims while learning more about Nickel’s activities.” Microsoft said it has been tracking Nickel since 2016 and found its “very sophisticated” attacks to install unobtrusive malware...
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