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Microsoft discovers NICKEL, a new attack that takes advantage of its software to steal information: it comes from China and is in Europe

December 8, 2021
Source: thenewstrace.com thenewstrace.com
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The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has discovered a malicious actor dubbed NICKEL, who is based in China, and targets its attacks on governments, diplomatic entities and non-governmental organizations (NGO) throughout Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe and North America. MSTIC has been tracking NICKEL since 2016, but it wasn’t until a few hours ago that Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced the successful seizure of a set of websites operated by NICKEL and the disruption of its ongoing attacks targeting organizations in 29 countries, following an injunction from a court in the United States that gave Microsoft the...
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