{"id":1147,"date":"2021-04-14T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/fbi-hacks-vulnerable-us-computers-to-fix-malicious-malware\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T10:45:09","slug":"fbi-hacks-vulnerable-us-computers-to-fix-malicious-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/fbi-hacks-vulnerable-us-computers-to-fix-malicious-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI hacks vulnerable US computers to fix malicious malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US justice department says bureau hacked devices to remove malware from insecure software<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has been hacking into the computers of US companies running insecure versions of Microsoft software in order to fix them, the US Department of Justice has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The operation, approved by a federal court, involved the FBI hacking into \u201chundreds\u201d of vulnerable computers to remove malware placed there<strong> <\/strong>by an earlier<strong> <\/strong>malicious hacking campaign, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/blog\/2021\/03\/02\/hafnium-targeting-exchange-servers\/\">Microsoft blamed on a Chinese hacking<\/a> group known as Hafnium.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/14\/fbi-hacks-vulnerable-united-states-computers-to-fix-hack-malicious-malware-microsoft-exchange-software\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ece343e744c121b093f88cb0d09254a79aa07788\/0_163_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7358bd2a9dede58e770f4df754858aff\" title=\"FBI hacks vulnerable US computers to fix malicious malware\" \/>US justice department says bureau hacked devices to remove malware from insecure software<br \/>\nThe FBI has been hacking into the computers of US companies running insecure versions of Microsoft software in order to fix them, the US Department of Justice has announced.<br \/>\nThe operation, approved by a federal court, involved the FBI hacking into \u201chundreds\u201d of vulnerable computers to remove malware placed there by an earlier malicious hacking campaign, which Microsoft blamed on a Chinese hacking group known as Hafnium. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US justice department says bureau hacked devices to remove malware from insecure software The FBI has been hacking into the computers of US companies running insecure versions of Microsoft software in order to fix them, the US Department of Justice has announced. The operation, approved by a federal court, involved the FBI hacking into \u201chundreds\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/fbi-hacks-vulnerable-us-computers-to-fix-malicious-malware\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FBI hacks vulnerable US computers to fix malicious malware<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}