Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands

The routers-mainly Cisco and Netgear devices that had reached their end of life-were infected with what's known as KV Botnet malware, Justice Department officials said.

"To effect these seizures, the FBI will issue a command to each Target Device to stop it from running the KV Botnet VPN process," an agency special agent wrote in an affidavit.

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