{"id":271,"date":"2015-04-30T09:19:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/information-technology\/?p=271"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:04:16","slug":"in-the-news-fbi-works-with-foreign-partners-to-target-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/in-the-news-fbi-works-with-foreign-partners-to-target-botnet\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news: FBI works with foreign partners to target Botnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An excerpt from a recent FBI press release provides details about a recent security investigation St. Petersburg College\u2019s <a title=\"SPC IT Security\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/IT_Security_AS_Degree\/\">I.T. Security<\/a> students might find interesting:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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\u2019s 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 \u201cdownloader,\u201d which installed other forms of malicious software on victims\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"FBI Botnet investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/pressrel\/press-releases\/fbi-works-with-foreign-partners-to-target-botnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the rest of this article on Botnet investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from a recent FBI press release provides details about a recent security investigation St. Petersburg College\u2019s I.T. Security students might find interesting: &#8220;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\u2019s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/in-the-news-fbi-works-with-foreign-partners-to-target-botnet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the news: FBI works with foreign partners to target Botnet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccit","category-tech-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>In the news: FBI works with foreign partners to target Botnet - Technology<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/in-the-news-fbi-works-with-foreign-partners-to-target-botnet\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In the news: FBI works with foreign partners to target Botnet - Technology\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An excerpt from a recent FBI press release provides details about a recent security investigation St. Petersburg College\u2019s I.T. 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