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Google removes Play Store apps used in WireX DDoS botnet

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August 29th, 2017  By Warwick Ashford

 

Google has axed around 300 Play Store apps after security researchers revealed the apps were hijacking Android devices to carry out DDoS attacks

 

Security researchers have discovered that hundreds of seemingly benign apps in Google’s Play Store have been infecting Android devices with botnet malware.

 

The malicious apps were mainly media/video players, ringtones or tools such as storage managers and app stores with additional hidden features that were not readily apparent to users.

 

Google has axed the offending apps and is removing the applications from infected devices that were hijacked into a botnet used for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

 

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