More than 4,000 U.S. computers and networks have had malware files deleted by the FBI, which said it did not collect other ...

Law enforcement turns the PlugX malware’s own self-delete mechanism against it, nuking the China-linked trojan from thousands ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the FBI has deleted Chinese PlugX malware from over 4,200 computers in networks across the United States. The malware, controlled by the Chinese ...

A malware family known as PlugX is designed to remotely control infected machines, a threat that's existed since 2008. A ...

The FBI has recently conducted a large-scale operation to hack approximately 4,200 computers across the United States, ...

Federal authorities announced Tuesday that they have erased Chinese malware from thousands of computers across the United States.

The FBI hacked about 4,200 computers across the US as part of an operation to find and delete PlugX, a malware used by state-backed hackers in China to steal information from victims, the ...

U.S. federal law enforcement said Tuesday it deleted more than 4,000 instances of PlugX malware used in a Chinese ...

The People's Republic of China (PRC) government paid the Mustang Panda group to develop a version of PlugX malware used to infect, control, and steal information from victim computers, the FBI said.

In a statement Tuesday, the Justice Department and the FBI said that on Jan. 3 that they had concluded a five month effort to quietly delete a version of the PlugX malware from computers in the US.

According to the FBI, it worked on deleting the malware from over 4,000 Windows-based computers, further regarding that PlugX is capable of taking over a computer to steal the files and share them ...