Security Companies Team Up, Take Down Chinese Hacking Group

daten writes A coalition of security companies has hit a sophisticated hacking group in China with a heavy blow. The effort is detailed in a report released today by Novetta. The coalition, which calls itself Operation SMN, detected and cleaned up malicious code on 43,000 computers worldwide that were targeted by Axiom, an incredibly sophisticated organization that has been stealing intellectual property for more than six years. The group united as part of Microsoft's Coordinated Malware Eradication (CME) campaign against Hikit (a.k.a. Hikiti), the custom malware often used by Axiom to burrow into organizations, exfiltrate data, and evade detection, sometimes for years.

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Bullshit ...

[CaptainDork]

... If someone spray paints my mailbox with graffiti and I clean it off, is that vigilantism?

Re:6 years of hacking with the same malware?

[sneakyimp]

I'd be willing to bet that the point of the article in the OP was so that everyone would click on the link and have new malware installed.

Re:6 years of hacking with the same malware?

[Kvasio]

you mean: if it ain't fixed, keep using the break

Yuh Huh

[Greyfox]

Someone's gonna wake up tomorrow with a computer monitor in their bed :-P