Federal authorities announced Tuesday that they have erased Chinese malware from thousands of computers across the United States.

The FBI and international partners sent a self-destruct command to PlugX malware More than 4,000 computers in the US alone were cleaned as a result The malware was developed by a Chinese state-sponsored group French cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agents,

The FBI says it was authorized to mass-remove “PlugX” malware from more than 4,000 compromised machines in the United States