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| Microsoft has banned 50 North Korean hacking sites |
Microsoft has seized more than 50 North Korean hacker sites targeted by government officials, nuclear activists, human rights organizations, universities, and other groups to steal highly sensitive information from US computers after a court ruling.
The tech giant filed a suit in a federal court and accused two of the organization's anonymous participants of sending phishing messages on a website to access and access user accounts. the information.
Microsoft's Digital Crime Prevention Section tracks and collects information about Organization T to determine the size of its network, and finds that the organization has infected computers and threatened cyber security and stolen information. According to the Microsoft team, most victims in Japan, South Korea, and the United States are vulnerable to targeted victims. ,
Court documents have shown that Thallium disguises himself as Microsoft or uses his trademark (such as Office 365) to access the account. The judge granted the company an order to prevent Thallium from conducting other piracy operations against Microsoft customers, in addition, companies hosting website domains could transfer these software domains to the giants.
This court decision is the end result of Microsoft's ongoing efforts to combat cybercrime in organizations that are allegedly supported by the nation and the most popular operating system vendor. It is generally accepted that the community works there. He has particularly deep perspectives. Hackers from all over the world.
The company has taken similar legal measures against piracy groups in China, Russia and Iran. Actions against these groups resulted in the removal of hundreds of websites, the protection of thousands of victims, while the Thallium team targeted devices from targeted users. The system has been hacked and stolen using malware called BabyShark and KimJongRAT. the information.
Tom Bert, Vice President of Consumer Security and Trust, said in a message: We believe it is important for governments and the private sector to be more transparent about nation-state activities so that we can all continue to protect the Internet and we hope Microsoft's actions will draw attention to similar attacks against society. else
He added: "Users can protect themselves from such attacks by enabling two-factor authentication of email accounts, enabling security warnings for links from suspicious sources, and notifications of possible phishing patterns." ...