Google Sues China-Based Hackers Behind $1 Billion Lighthouse Phishing Platform

Google has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York SDNY against China-based hackers who are behind a massive Phishing-as-a-Service PhaaS platform called Lighthouse that has ensnared over 1 million users across 120 countries. The PhaaS kit is used to...

Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet

Microsoft Corp. has executed a coordinated legal sneak attack in a bid to disrupt the malware-as-a-service botnet Trickbot, a global menace that has infected millions of computers and is used to spread ransomware. A court in Virginia granted Microsoft control over many Internet servers Trickbot...