See Also – Tech Firms Team Up to Take Down ‘WireX’ Android DDoS Botnet
August 29th, 2017 By Warwick Ashford
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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