Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit recently took over numerous websites from the Chinese cyber gang “Nickel” following a court order. According to the company, other security companies also call the criminal group “KE3CHANG”, “APT15”, “Vixen Panda”, “Royal APT” and “Playful Dragon”. The Redmond-based company has redirected the network traffic of the websites to its own secure server and thus disrupts the activities of the criminal gang. Microsoft admits that the move won’t stop the Nickel gang from continuing anyway. But the manufacturer believes it has removed a key piece of infrastructure that was used in the last wave of attacks. Die...