Court Permits FBI to Hack Computers Around the US so It Can Eradicate a Hack

This week, the Justice Department announced that it had given the FBI permission to run a court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers in the United States. These vulnerable computers were running on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server software that had been exploited by hacking groups through January and February 2021.
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