Court order seizes websites used by China-based hacking group, Microsoft says By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Microsoft used a court order to seize dozens of websites that a China-based hacking group was using for a cyber-espionage campaign against organizations in the US and 28 other countries, the tech giant said Monday. “We believe these attacks were largely being used for intelligence gathering from government agencies, think tanks and human rights organizations,” Tom Burt, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post. The Microsoft action is part of a broader effort by US tech companies and government agencies to...