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

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.

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 ...

Languages: English. The FBI has revealed details of a huge international cyberattack carried out by a Chinese hacker organization. The group, Mustang Panda, used malware called PlugX to access ...

The FBI on Tuesday announced that it erased malware from more than 4,000 computers across the United States. The malware was under the control of China state-sponsored hackers. File Photo courtesy ...