Microsoft Sued Thallium Hacking Group’s Malicious Websites

Cyber-espionage group sued by Microsoft for breaking into its customers' accounts and networks. The cyber-espionage group was tracked as Thallium with North Korean links. It used spear-phishing attacks to break into the networks. The major motive of the group was to steal sensitive information from the customers of Microsoft.

Microsoft detected the threat and filed an issue in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, as first reported by Bloomberg Law's Blake Brittain on December 18.

Both public and private industries are targeted by Thallium as previously government employees, organizations and individuals that work on Nuclear Proliferation issues, think tanks, university staff members, members of organizations that attempt to maintain world peace, human rights organizations, as well as many other organizations and individuals were targeted by this group. STOLEN PENCIL - it is another North Korean hacking group that was tracked by Netscout's ATLAS Security Engineering & Response Team.

By taking over infrastructure domains used as part of their core operations Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit was able to block some of the Phosphorus group's cyber attacks. Microsoftredirected traffic from infected devices to its sinkholes by taking over parts of the hacking group's operations.