Intel Security swats Beebone botnet with FBI's help

Intel has buddied with security for the FBI and Europol to reverse a notorious botnet with a sting in the tail.

The polymorphic Beebone botnet that infected at its peak in 2014, more than 100,000 machines in 195 countries developed below with the next Intel tools to the FBI, cybercrime European Centre of Europol, the Dutch authorities and parts of the private outlets.

"Intel Security is more than five million unique identification AAEH samples with more than 100 000 machines 200 countries. This type of withdrawal would not have happened without the cooperation between police organizations and private companies," said Raj Samani, EMEA CTO of Intel's security.

Intel Safety first threat identified way back in March 2014 and it was only in September 2014 when it was acquired enough he approached the international community to fight against cyber-crime for help.

Beebone was dangerous because it allows other malware that has been downloaded by machines, which could include anything from the basic password data theft and rootkits, anti-virus software fake and ransomware are targeted.

100 domains crashed

He had a worm's ability to add new machines to infiltrate through the dissemination through networks, removable media and infected within ZIP and RAR archives. The prevention campaign by Intel and its partners conducted seen the complete eradication of the threat and the withdrawal of about 100 domains in the process.

Microsoft is working with the FBI in a similar way in June 2014 when he refused their botnet Battle Game Over expertise Zeus Trojan, which was the target of passwords to get rid of and trying to steal information online banking.