"...[Russian State] Hackers Now Under Attack—From Microsoft Microsoft is going after Fancy Bear, the Russian hacking group .., by wresting control of domain names controlled by the foreign spies... Last year attorneys for the software maker quietly sued the hacker group known as Fancy Bear in a federal court outside Washington DC, accusing it of computer intrusion, cybersquatting, and infringing on Microsoft’s trademarks. ...The lawsuit is a tool for Microsoft to target what it calls 'the most vulnerable point' in Fancy Bear’s espionage operations: the command-and-control servers the hackers use to covertly direct malware on victim computers. Since August, Microsoft has used the lawsuit to wrest control of 70 different command-and-control points from Fancy Bear. .. Rather than getting physical custody of the servers, which Fancy Bear rents from data centers around the world, Microsoft has been taking over the Internet domain names that route to them... The offensive against Fancy Bear appears to be the first time a technology company has tried to directly disrupt a foreign intelligence operation on a large scale...." http://www.thedailybeast.com/micros...sian-spies-network?source=twitter&via=desktop