{"id":7284,"date":"2015-08-11T04:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.bankvaultonline.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2015-08-11T04:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:56:05","slug":"active-threat-beta-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Threat: Beta Bot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beta Bot<\/strong> is a nasty type of Trojan first discovered in 2013 that infects computers, disables their antivirus and malware scanning software and also prevents users from accessing security \u2013 oriented websites. It disguises itself as a MS Windows message box usually titled, \u2018User Account Controls\u2019 and asks the user to allow the \u2018Windows Command Processor\u2019 to make admin-level changes. Of course it says it is certified and approved by Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>If the user approves this request Beta Bot then modifies the computer to disable its security software and then steals log-ins, passwords and financial data.<\/p>\n<p>If the user doesn\u2019t approve the request for administrative controls Beta Bot can get more dramatic. Some versions will prompt the user with a \u201cCritical Disk Error\u201d warning which is often scary enough to push the user into giving Beta Bot access.<\/p>\n<p>The most common way users infect their machines with Beta Bot is by clicking on fake links in Skype or by phishing emails that prompt the user to download something like a \u2018video player.\u2019 USB drives also have contained Beta Bot.<\/p>\n<p>It is very difficult to uninstall Beta Bot once it is identified on one\u2019s machine \u2013 given that it disables malware and anti-virus programs. The US FBI recommends downloading a new, complete antivirus suite to a different, clean computer and then transferring the necessary files to a USB and then loading that on to the infected machine. Once complete, reformat the USB completely. Or throw it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beta Bot is a nasty type of Trojan first discovered in 2013 that infects computers, disables their antivirus and malware scanning software and also prevents users from accessing security \u2013 oriented websites. It disguises itself as a MS Windows message box usually titled, \u2018User Account Controls\u2019 and asks the user to allow the \u2018Windows Command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[137,262,263,264,48,242,265,266],"class_list":["post-7284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alerts","tag-antivirus","tag-beta-bot","tag-definition-of-the-day","tag-disk-error-warning","tag-malware","tag-malware-scanning","tag-threats","tag-windows-command-control"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Active Threat: Beta Bot - BankVault<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Beta bot is a type of trojan horse malware which infects computers and disables antivirus software. Find out more about how it can devastate your computer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Active Threat: Beta Bot - BankVault\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Beta bot is a type of trojan horse malware which infects computers and disables antivirus software. Find out more about how it can devastate your computer!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BankVault\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BankVaultOnline\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-08-10T20:56:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"BankVault\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bankvaultonline\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bankvaultonline\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"BankVault\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Active Threat: Beta Bot - BankVault","description":"Beta bot is a type of trojan horse malware which infects computers and disables antivirus software. Find out more about how it can devastate your computer!","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Active Threat: Beta Bot - BankVault","og_description":"Beta bot is a type of trojan horse malware which infects computers and disables antivirus software. Find out more about how it can devastate your computer!","og_url":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/","og_site_name":"BankVault","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BankVaultOnline\/","article_published_time":"2015-08-10T20:56:05+00:00","author":"BankVault","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@bankvaultonline","twitter_site":"@bankvaultonline","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"BankVault","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/"},"author":{"name":"BankVault","@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/#\/schema\/person\/76e0aa85d5ac5405b47c0760eb9ab639"},"headline":"Active Threat: Beta Bot","datePublished":"2015-08-10T20:56:05+00:00","dateModified":"2015-08-10T20:56:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/"},"wordCount":249,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["antivirus","beta bot","definition of the day","Disk Error Warning","malware","malware scanning","threats","Windows Command Control"],"articleSection":["Latest Cybersecurity Threats"],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/","name":"Active Threat: Beta Bot - BankVault","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-08-10T20:56:05+00:00","dateModified":"2015-08-10T20:56:05+00:00","description":"Beta bot is a type of trojan horse malware which infects computers and disables antivirus software. Find out more about how it can devastate your computer!","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/active-threat-beta-bot\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Active Threat: Beta Bot"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/","name":"BankVault","description":"cybersecurity","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/#organization","name":"BankVault","url":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BankVault-Logo-Light.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BankVault-Logo-Light.png","width":1212,"height":275,"caption":"BankVault"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BankVaultOnline\/","https:\/\/x.com\/bankvaultonline"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/#\/schema\/person\/76e0aa85d5ac5405b47c0760eb9ab639","name":"BankVault","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"BankVault"},"url":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/author\/bankvault\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bankvault.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}