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MICROSOFT TAKES CONTROL OF MALICIOUS WEBSITES USED BY CHINA-BACKED HACKERS

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Tech giant, Microsoft has disrupted the movements of China-backed hackers,
seizing control of the malicious websites the group used to infiltrate
organizations in the US and 28 other nations around the world.

 

The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced in a statement that a federal
court in Virginia granted its request to seize websites of the China-backed
hackers referred to as ‘Nickel’, allowing the firm to cut off Nickel’s access to
its victims and stop these malicious websites from being employed to execute
attacks.

 


THESE CHINA-BACKED HACKERS WERE WORKING TO GATHER INTELLIGENCE FROM DIFFERENT
ORGANIZATIONS 

 

“We believe these attacks were for the most part being employed for intelligence
gathering from government agencies, think tanks, and human rights
organizations,” said Tom Burt, Company Vice President, Customer Security, and
Trust at Microsoft. Gaining control of the malicious websites of the
China-backed hackers and redirecting traffic from those websites to Microsoft’s
secure servers will facilitate the company to defend existing and future
sufferers while uncovering more about Nickel’s actions.

 

Read more: Microsoft to Shut Down LinkedIn Social Media Service in China

“Our disruption will not prevent China-backed hackers, Nickel from continuing
other hacking activities, but we do believe we have removed a key piece of the
infrastructure the group has been counting on for this latest wave of attacks,”
Burt told late on Monday. Till now, in 24 lawsuits – five against nation-state
actors — Microsoft has taken down over 10,000 malicious websites employed by
cybercriminals and almost 600 sites employed by nation-state players.

 


MICROSOFT BLOCKED THE REGISTRATION OF 600,000 WEBSITES TO PREVENT FUTURE
ATTACKS 

 

“We have also with success blocked the registration of 600,000 sites to induce
ahead of criminal actors that planned to use them maliciously in the
future,” the tech giant informed. In some observed activities, China-backed
hackers, Nickel malware employed exploits targeting unpatched on-premises
Exchange Server and SharePoint systems.

 

“However, we have not discovered any new vulnerabilities in Microsoft product as
a part of these attacks. Microsoft has created unique signatures to discover and
defend from renowned Nickel activity through our security products, like
Microsoft 365 Defender,” the company further informed. Moreover, China-backed
hackers, Nickel has targeted organizations in both the personal and public
sectors, as well as diplomatic structures and ministries of external affairs in
North America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and
Africa.

 

Source: TechCrunch


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Aleena Jawaid is a Writer at Technologistan.pk. She is a tech enthusiast and
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