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US removes malware allegedly planted on computers by Chinese-backed hackers


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In court records filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, prosecutors allege that the Chinese government paid the Mustang Panda group to develop PlugX. Cybersecurity company Sekoia identified the command and control infrastructure used by the hackers to control this variant of PlugX in September 2023 and subsequently worked with French law enforcement to take over the infrastructure by July 2024, French authorities said at the time.

 

The FBI worked in conjunction with the French authorities to identify U.S.-based devices targeted by the malware to send commands to self-delete from each device, according to an FBI affidavit.

 

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This is cool because they managed to take over the command control server and send the command for the malware to self delete.  Cybersecurity is in a real no man's land right now.  Federal government says they can't fix the problem because they report problems and fixes, but nobody takes the time to fix it.  Average Joes just can't compete with full time security specialists trying to compromise their systems.  Between that and the ever growing list of old devices still running, it's only going to get worse!
 
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@KazDon't worry all those old device are made to self destruct when the battery fail ðŸ˜… Good thing about new Chromebook is they will get security update on 10y minimum. And now the s24 is 7y if am not wrong. The market is slowly slowing down. Moore Law is dead.

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