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PlugX, Go-To Malware for Targeted Attacks, More Prominent Than Ever

The popular remote access tool PlugX enjoyed an ascent in popularity in 2014 and is now a go-to malware for attack groups. Existing in some form since 2008, the popular remote access tool PlugX has as ...
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TA416 APT Rebounds With New PlugX Malware Variant

The TA416 APT has returned in spear phishing attacks against a range of victims – from the Vatican to diplomats in Africa – with a new Golang version of its PlugX malware loader. The TA416 advanced ...
Yahoo

FBI to ‘remove’ this nasty malware that’s affected 2.5 million PCs

A malware originating from China has now been contained after the FBI gained a court order to have the harmful code deleted from thousands of Windows PCs. The agency has successfully put an end to the ...
Bleeping Computer

PlugX malware hides on USB devices to infect new Windows hosts

Security researchers have analyzed a variant of the PlugX malware that can hide malicious files on removable USB devices and then infect the Windows hosts they connect to. The malware uses what ...
SiliconANGLE

New PlugX RAT campaign distributed through USB drives targets Steam users

Researchers from security operations company Ontinue AG today are warning of a new PlugX Remote Access Trojan campaign that is targeting Steam users. PlugX is a RAT malware family that has been around ...
HHS

Chinese Hackers Deploy New PlugX Variant

A remote access Trojan that's a staple of Chinese nation-state hacking is part of an ongoing campaign targeting telecom and manufacturing sectors in Central and South Asian countries. Researchers at ...
Bleeping Computer

Researchers sinkhole PlugX malware server with 2.5 million unique IPs

Researchers have sinkholed a command and control server for a variant of the PlugX malware and observed in six months more than 2.5 million connections from unique IP addresses. Since last September, ...
Computer Weekly

Chinese APT using PlugX malware on espionage targets

Bronze President, the China-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group that also goes by the name of Mustang Panda, has been conducting a widespread campaign against targets of interest to Chinese ...
Dark Reading

Is 'Virus Expert' Tied To PlugX RAT Malware?

A virus expert who may be responsible for the development of PlugX, a Remote Access Tool, or RAT, used for several years to attack computers and steal data from targets in Asia, did not adequately ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

PlugX Targeted Attack Abuses Dropbox for C&C Updates

Security researchers at Trend Micro have spotted for the first time a targeted attack campaign using Dropbox to download and update command and control (C&C) settings. Threat analyst Maersk Menrige ...
Ars Technica

FBI forces Chinese malware to delete itself from thousands of US computers

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 ...