Law enforcement release
Taking Down Botnets
FBI Cyber Division, July 15, 2014. Establishes FBI coordination with Microsoft's civil action against Citadel infrastructure..
- Source type
- Law enforcement release
- Published
- July 15, 2014
- Research grade
- P1
- Used in entries
- 5
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- FBI Cyber Division
- Published
- July 15, 2014
- Source type
- Law enforcement release
- Research grade
- Source grade P1
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Official publication
- What it supports
- Establishes FBI coordination with Microsoft's civil action against Citadel infrastructure.
- Dataset id
- src_fbi_citadel_2013
How this source is used
Cited 5 times across 3 record types.
The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.
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Cited by
Takedown records
1 citation
Cited on the takedown record itself.
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Citadel botnet disruptionPrimary source
Malware and botnets, June 2013
Organization roles
2 citations
Cited for an organization's recorded role in a takedown.
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Federal Bureau of InvestigationBackground
Operational lead, Citadel botnet disruption
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Microsoft Digital Crimes UnitBackground
Co-lead, Citadel botnet disruption
Infrastructure
2 citations
Cited for infrastructure recorded as acted on.
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more than 1,000 domainsBackground
Domains seized, Citadel botnet disruption
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more than 1,000 command and control serversBackground
Command and control servers disabled, Citadel botnet disruption