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 “hundreds” 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.

"These attacks took place over many months" and were coordinated through Chinese criminal gangs, Microsoft's director of security, Adam Meyers, told the US government's espionage court in New York this week. Microsoft said the underlying code was developed by an Iranian crime group named Graphics Padilla.

Meyers said the code was intended to retrieve data stored on Microsoft Exchange servers. He declined to say who had been targeted or say whether there were other networks affected in the United States.

The court heard the operation was authorized on December 4 last year by a federal judge and alongside the US attorney's office in New York. Before then, on 24 November, Microsoft had declined the FBI's demand that the offending code be removed so it could be refunded.

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