FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from thousands of Windows PCs in America

**Executive summary:** The FBI, working with French law enforcement and private cybersecurity firms, seized a Mustang Panda command-and-control server and used court-authorized warrants to remotely trigger PlugX's self-delete on infected Windows systems—removing the USB-propagating PlugX worm from thousands of machines globally, including about 4,258 in the United States.