An excerpt from a recent FBI press release provides details about a recent security investigation St. Petersburg College’s I.T. Security students might find interesting:
“On April 8, 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force-International Cyber Crime Coordination Cell (IC4) coordinated with the Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), and the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, along with private sector partners in their targeted takedown of the Beebone (also known as AAEH) botnet. Beebone acted as a “downloader,” which installed other forms of malicious software on victims’ computers without their consent or knowledge. The secondary infections installed by Beebone include software that steals banking logins and passwords, as well as fraudulent anti-virus software and ransomware.
Investigators are in the process of determining the number of victims in the United States and around the world that have been impacted by this botnet.”