The agency has successfully put an end to the reign of the PlugX malware in the U.S., which has affected over 2.5 million devices globally by infiltrating infected USB drives, PCMag noted.
Millions of devices are still connected to the PlugX malware, despite its creators abandoning it months ago, experts have warned. Cybersecurity analysts Sekoia managed to obtain the IP address ...
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 12 Chinese nationals, including officers of China’s Ministry of Public Security ...
The US Justice Department has charged Chinese state security officers along with APT27 and i-Soon hackers for network ...
However, PlugX is not considered publicly available malware and is exclusively used by Chinese APTs. The particular PlugX variant, or plug-in, that was observed together with ransomware by ...
deleted "PlugX" malware from thousands of infected computers worldwide. As described in court documents unsealed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a group of hackers sponsored by the People ...
The attacks exploited CVE-2024-24919, a Check Point Security Gateway vulnerability, to gain access to targeted networks and deploy the ShadowPad and PlugX malware, two families tightly associated ...
Purchasing malware, credentials ... The toolset, first spotted in July, was a variant of PlugX, a custom backdoor. Timestamps in the toolset were identical to those found by security firm Palo ...
Twelve Chinese nationals, including two public security ministry officers, have been indicted for a series of hacking attacks ...