French Authorities Launch Large-Scale Op To Combat Cyber Spying

[patman post]

Interesting report in April on PlugX...:

China-linked PlugX malware infections found in more than 170 countries
A strain of malware connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security has been found in more than 170 countries, according to cybersecurity researchers who took control of a command and control server linked to it.
Experts at cybersecurity firm Sekoia said they successfully took over the server in September 2023, giving them access to a trove of information about how far the PlugX malware has spread.


https://therecord.media/plugx-malware-infections-more-than-170-countries

[Barry]

The CrowdStrike "outage" which was seriously bad coding, has to have been a cover for something.
I wonder if this is linked.

[Borg Refinery]

French authorities have launched a major operation to clean up computers infected by a cyber-espionage programme that has struck millions of users worldwide, a senior prosecutor said Thursday.
"On the eve of the Olympics, this operation demonstrates that different players in France and abroad are mobilised to fight against all forms of cybercrime," Paris chief prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.
She said investigators were targeting a network of bots suspected of infecting computers with PlugX malware and of stealing data from them "notably for purposes of espionage".

France 24