news Microsoft uses domain names in legal battle against Russian hackers

[mems]

Microsoft is taking down suspected Russian hackers using American trademark law.
Granting Microsoft possession of these domains will enable Microsoft to channel all communications to those domains to secure servers, and thereby cut off the means by which the Russian hackers communicate with the infected computers

https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/20...s-legal-battle-russian-hackers/#.tnw_KDKP2fF9

 

[keston57]

Anything that can be done to put those guys out of business would be welcomed.