The FBI says it was authorized to mass-remove “PlugX” malware from more than 4,000 compromised machines in the United States

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 FBI said today that it removed Chinese malware from 4,258 US-based computers and networks by sending commands that forced the malware to use its "self-delete" function. The People's Republic of China (PRC) government paid the Mustang Panda group to develop a version of PlugX malware used to infect,