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 ...

The Justice Department granted the FBI its court-authorized operation against the Chinese malware known as "PlugX" back in August 2024, and the law enforcement authorities sifted through thousands ...

The FBI confirmed the deletion of Chinese malware from 4,258 U.S.-based computers in a court-authorized operation that lasted ...

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.

Update, Jan. 17, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 15, now includes further technical analysis and timelines of the PlugX malware from threat operations experts and information regarding ...

When infected with PlugX, computers are surreptitiously programmed to communicate back to a command-and-control server that’s hard-coded into the malware. The particular central command server ...

The FBI instructed PlugX — a malware used by state-sponsored hackers in China — to delete itself across 4,200 infected devices in the US. The FBI instructed PlugX — a malware used by state ...

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.

The malware, a variant of the PlugX malicious software, was under the control of China-state sponsored hackers Mustang Panda, which also goes by Twill Typhoon. According to court documents ...

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that it has deleted malware planted on more than 4,200 computers by a group of criminal hackers who were backed by the People's Republic of China.

In a press release last year, French prosecutors said the malware — known as “PlugX” — had infected several million computers globally, including 3,000 devices located in France.