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1039 11 Million Devices Infected With Botnet Malware Hosted In Google Play

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 09/23/2024 19:30 EDT

11 Million Devices Infected With Botnet Malware Hosted In Google Play

Ars Technica's Dan Goodin reports: Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery -- a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious by a library the developers used to earn advertising revenue. With that, the app was infected with code that caused 100 million infected devices to connect to attacker-controlled servers and download secret payloads. Now, history is repeating itself. Researchers from the same Moscow, Russia-based security firm reported Monday that.

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