The FBI recently achieved a significant victory by removing malicious software called PlugX from over 4,000 computers and networks across the United States. This malware, created by a hacker group ...

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.

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

The malware, controlled by the Chinese cyber espionage group Mustang Panda (also tracked as Twill Typhoon), infected thousands of systems using a PlugX variant with a wormable component that ...

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

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

The Department of Justice and the FBI have completed a project to remotely remove malware used by Chinese hackers from computers in the US.

The problem is that PlugX ended up infecting so many machines it likely overwhelmed the malware’s infrastructure, possibly causing Mustang Panda to abandon it, according to French cybersecurity ...

French cybersecurity vendor Sekoia observed that Mustang Panda eventually lacked the resources to support the number of machines it had infected with the PlugX malware and ultimately abandoned the ...

The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that it has deleted malware planted on more than 4,200 computers by a group of ...

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 ...