News report

# International police bring down Beebone botnet

iTnews, April 10, 2015. FBI seizure of approximately 100 Beebone domain names under court authorisation, and Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit leadership of the April 2015 operation with Europol EC3, the FBI and J-CAT..

**Source type:** News report

**Published:** April 10, 2015

**Research grade:** S2

**Used in entries:** 1

## Bibliographic record

**Publisher:** iTnews

**Published:** April 10, 2015

**Source type:** News report

**Research grade:** Source grade S2

**Language:** English

**Official record:** Not an official publication

**Address:** [https://www.itnews.com.au/news/international-police-bring-down-beebone-botnet-402621](https://www.itnews.com.au/news/international-police-bring-down-beebone-botnet-402621)

**What it supports:** FBI seizure of approximately 100 Beebone domain names under court authorisation, and Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit leadership of the April 2015 operation with Europol EC3, the FBI and J-CAT.

**Dataset id:** src\_itnews\_beebone\_takedown\_2015

## Research notes

- By Brendon Foye; page shows 'Apr 10 2015 5:41PM'.
- The quoted sentence contains the article's own typo, 'siezed'.

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## Cited by

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[Operation Source / Beebone botnet disruption](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/operation-source-beebone-botnet-disruption)

Malware and botnets, April 2015

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