The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI confirmed that a court-authorized operation allowed the remote removal of malware files from 4,258 U.S.-based computers. The operation targeted the PlugX ...

PlugX first surfaced in 2008 when it was used ... the U.S. entities plan to remove the malware from domestic PCs, the FBI testified in an affidavit that it has tested this self-delete command ...

The campaign, which Checkpoint has named "SmugX" uses a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver the PlugX remote access trojan (RAT) - a common Chinese payload. HTML smuggling is an attack ...