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were infected by this malware had not taken the remediation steps to stop it. maybe this is a dumb question but, how did they have eyes on that? because there s all these companies out there, they all have servers, how does the government know which malware is where and which companies have it and haven t addressed it? right, so, these russian hacking groups are tracked carefully by the government and by cyber security researchers. a lot of intelligence is gathered about what they are doing and where they are trying to attack next. so in this case, the government was able to track where this malware had been installed and go in and removed it. but they are ticking down is really just the command and control infrastructure of the malware, not every single place where the malware was infected. these botnets could be very large. so what s the government did was cut off the mueller at the