Microsoft announced on Monday that it had disrupted the cyberspying of a state-backed Chinese hacking group by seizing websites it used to gather intelligence from foreign ministries, think tanks and human rights organisations in the US and 28 other countries, the vast majority in Latin America. The company said a Virginia federal court had granted its request last Thursday to seize 42 web domains that the Chinese hacking group, which it calls Nickel but which is also known as APT15 and Vixen Panda, were using to access targets typically aligned with China’s geopolitical interests. It said in a blog that...