FBI warns BADBOX 2.0 malware has infected over a million devices; Cheap, Chinese-made, Android-powered devices often the victim; Devices hijacked to become part of global botnet ...

The FBI recently used a court order to delete a strain of Chinese-developed malware that can spread to Windows PCs via infected USB drives. The agency shut down a variant of the PlugX malware that ...

The FBI and international partners sent a self-destruct command to PlugX malware More than 4,000 computers in the US alone were cleaned as a result The malware was developed by a Chinese state ...

PlugX was discovered as early as 2012, with the Chinese hackers behind it have already been using the malware since 2014. According to the FBI, it worked on deleting the malware from over 4,000 ...

The court documents state China-based hackers have been using the malware since 2014. The FBI said Mustang Panda is paid by the Chinese government to provide it with computer intrusion services ...

The FBI instructed PlugX — a malware used by state-sponsored hackers in China — to delete itself across 4,200 infected devices in the US. by Emma Roth. Jan 14, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC ...

FBI Director Chris Wray says the FBI has disrupted a group of Chinese hackers who were working at the direction of the Chinese government to infiltrate critical infrastructure in the U.S. and ...

The FBI has gained court approval to put an end to the PlugX malware in the U.S., which has affected over 2.5 million devices globally by infiltrating infected USB drives.

Sophos also said that CVE-2020-12271 wasn’t the only vulnerability exploited in this campaign, also listing CVE-2020-15069, CVE-2020-29574, CVE-2022-1040, and CVE-2022-3236.

Xu Zewei, a 33-year-old Chinese citizen of Han Chinese background and an IT manager for a technology company in Shanghai, was ...