Microsoft Takes Control of 99 Domains Operated By Iranian State Hackers (zdnet.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Court documents unsealed today revealed that Microsoft has been waging a secret battle against a group of Iranian government-sponsored hackers. The OS maker sued and won a restraining order that allowed it to take control of 99 web domains that had been previously owned and operated by a group of Iranian hackers known in cyber-security circles as APT35, Phosphorus, Charming Kitten, and the Ajax Security Team. The domains had been used as part of spear-phishing campaigns aimed at users in the US and across the world.

APT35 hackers had registered these domains to incorporate the names of well-known brands, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and others. The domains were then used to collect login credentials for users the group had tricked into accessing their sites. The tactic is decades old but is still extremely successful at tricking users into unwittingly disclosing usernames and passwords, even today. Some of the domains Microsoft has confiscated include the likes of outlook-verify.net, yahoo-verify.net, verification-live.com, and myaccount-services.net. Microsoft said it received substantial support from the domain registrars, which transferred the domains over to Microsoft as soon as the company obtained a court order.

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Iranian State why?

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That they could be typical cyber criminals, as from the entire rest of the world, oh no, they are Iranian and hence must be Iranian espionage agents. You know what every single American cyber criminal, by the same idiot logic, is a US intelligence agency asset, every single one (just look at the fake 'Anonymous' prosecutions and Sabu, who was committing criminal acts in other countries at the behest of the FBI, proof right there) .

There are no cyber treaties and no extradition, due to US insistence that there be none, because they are the global cybercriminals and as proof they abhor the International Criminal Court as, the US government is an international criminal.

How's that global politician extortion scam going for you, USA (Union of Shitty Arseholes, where the politicians are dags on a sheep's butt and that sheep is the poor suffering and exploited US population), not working so well any more, huh, everyone's security got better and those corrupted politicians are disappearing, well shit, who would have thought that would have happened.

Played all your cards, your hand is empty, nothing left but empty hollow mouthings that no one listens to any more because yeah you lie and you lie a whole damn lot, its not just that you are corrupt and chaotic, it's that you are extraordinarily destructively so.