Thousands of US victims, including 12+ machines owned and operated by Redmond Microsoft seized websites and took down hundreds of virtual machines running a cybercrime service that allegedly sold code signing certificates to ransomware gangs, thus making their malware look like legitimate software – and allowing criminals to infect thousands of machines in the US, including at least 12 owned and operated by the Windows giant. The malware signing as a service operation called Fox Tempest has...

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