We investigate the controversy that was stirred up recently when the FBI in the US used malware to fight malware.
The Feds accessed remote access webshells left behind after the recent Hafnium attacks to remove the webshells themselves, after a court order said they could.
As helpful and as community-minded as this sounds, not everyone agreed that it was a good idea:
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