A coalition of security companies has hit a sophisticated hacking group in China with a heavy blow. The effort is detailed in a report released today by Novetta. The coalition detected and cleaned up malicious code on 43,000 computers worldwide that were targeted by Axiom. The group united as part of Microsoft’s Coordinated Malware Eradication (CME) campaign against Hikit. The report notes its ability to sift through large sets of infected machines to identify the highest-interest targets.”]