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Microsoft He said he had seized websites that were used by hackers based in China and targeted the United States to gather intelligence.

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Tom Burt The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said it authorized the company to disrupt the hacking group. Microsoft “Nickel,” he says.

“In unsealed documents [Monday]A federal court in Virginia has granted our request to seize websites that Nickel uses to attack organizations in the United States and 28 other countries around the world, allowing us to cut off Nickel’s access to his victims and prevent the websites from being used for executions. attacks,” he said. Burt Wrote on the company’s blog. “We believe these attacks were largely used to gather intelligence from government agencies, think tanks, and human rights organizations.”

Mr. Burt wrote this Microsoft It filed 24 lawsuits, five against “nation-state actors”, to get the removal of 10,000 malicious websites used by cybercriminals and nearly 600 websites used by state-sponsored hackers.

Microsoft He went to federal court on Thursday to seek authority to take control of the websites, and Mr. Burt He said the court moved quickly.

“Taking control of malicious websites and trafficking from those sites Microsoft‘s secure servers will help us protect current and future victims as we learn more about Nickel’s activities. Burt. “Our outage will not prevent Nickel from continuing with other hacking activities, but we believe we have removed a key piece of infrastructure the group relies on for this latest wave of hacking.”

The U.S. government has increasingly turned to the private sector for help with cybersecurity amid state-sponsored cyberattacks on commercial companies, such as the hacking of SolarWinds computer network management software and endangering the security of nine federal agencies, last year.