Microsoft announced yesterday that its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has disrupted the activities of a China-based hacking group. Microsoft’s disruption will not prevent the hacking group from continuing other hacking activities, but Microsoft has removed a key piece of the infrastructure the group has been relying on for the recent attacks. Microsoft has named this hacking group as Nickel. Microsoft DCU got permission from a federal court in Virginia to seize websites used by Nickel to attack organizations in the United States and 28 other countries around the world. Microsoft believes that these attacks were largely being used for intelligence...