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MICROSOFT SEIZES MALICIOUS WEBSITES USED BY PROLIFIC CHINESE APT GROUP

The so-called Nikel cyber espionage attack group - aka APT15, Vixen Panda,
KE3CHANG, Royal APT, and Playful Dragon - has been in Microsoft's sights since
2016.
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Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has seized websites used by a China-based
cyber-espionage hacking team to wage cyberattacks on government agencies, think
tanks, and human rights organizations in some 29 countries, including the US.



The hacking group, dubbed Nickel by Microsoft, is also known as APT15, Vixen
Panda, KE3CHANG, Royal APT, and Playful Dragon.

The disruption of the threat group's infrastructure came via a court order
granted to Microsoft by the US District Court for the Eastern District of
Virginia and unsealed today.

"Obtaining control of the malicious websites and redirecting traffic from those
sites to Microsoft’s secure servers will help us protect existing and future
victims while learning more about Nickel’s activities," wrote Tom Burt, vice
president of customer security and trust, in a post announcing the news today.
"Our disruption will not prevent Nickel from continuing other hacking
activities, but we do believe we have removed a key piece of the infrastructure
the group has been relying on for this latest wave of attacks."




Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center has been monitoring Nickel since 2016 and
studying the groups cyber-espionage campaigns via the infrastructure since 2019.
The attackers targeted unpatched Exchange Server and SharePoint systems.

Read more here and here. 



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