Microsoft has revealed that it has disrupted the activities of a China-based hacking group it has been tracking since 2016. A federal court in Virginia granted the company’s request to seize websites belonging to the group, dubbed Nickel, which was using them to attack organisations in the US and 28 other countries around the world. Microsoft believes the attacks were largely being used for intelligence gathering from government agencies, think tanks, and human rights organisations. Microsoft said it had been tracking Nickel since 2016 and analysing the way it has targeted government organisations across Latin America and Europe since 2019….