A coalition of security vendors has disrupted the activities of a sophisticated group of attackers tied to China that, over the past six years, infiltrated the computers of many Fortune 500 companies, journalists, environmental groups, software companies, academic institutions, pro-democracy groups and government agencies around the world.

The so-called “interdiction” effort was publicly announced earlier this month and targeted a cyberespionage group dubbed Axiom. It saw the participation of Novetta, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, FireEye, F­Secure, iSight Partners, Symantec, Tenable Network Security, ThreatConnect, ThreatTrack Security and Volexity.

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