| Title | FBI, Air Force Investigators Mapped North Korean Botnet to Aid Shutdown | |
| Date | Saturday February 02 2019, @04:22AM | |
| Author | mrpg | |
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| from the lat-1-long-2 dept. | ||
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FBI, Air Force investigators mapped North Korean botnet to aid shutdown
On January 30, the US Department of Justice announced that it had partnered with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations to engage in a campaign to "map and further disrupt" a botnet tied to North Korean intelligence activities detailed in an indictment unsealed last September. Search warrants obtained by the FBI and AFOSI allowed the agencies to essentially join the botnet, creating servers that mimicked the beacons of the malware.
"While the Joanap botnet was identified years ago and can be defeated with antivirus software," said United States Attorney Nick Hanna, "we identified numerous unprotected computers that hosted the malware underlying the botnet. The search warrants and court orders announced today as part of our efforts to eradicate this botnet are just one of the many tools we will use to prevent cybercriminals from using botnets to stage damaging computer intrusions."
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