New York Times article about FBI secretly removing malware from U.S. corporate servers – would this indicate they have a government backdoor?

New York times just ran an article titled "U.S. Says It Secretly Removed Malware Worldwide, Pre-empting Russian Cyberattacks" that stated

The United States said on Wednesday that it had secretly removed
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