The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids

Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort Human ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

BADBOX 2.0 Botnet alert: FBI warns smart TVs, digital device may have exploit

Cyber criminals are exploiting IoT devices in homes to create a botnet called BADBOX 2.0, enabling illegal online activities. Most compromised devices are manufactured in China and become infected ...
Android

ASUS Router Alert: Thousands Hacked to Form Massive Botnet

Thousands of ASUS routers have been hacked to form a major botnet, exploiting vulnerabilities including CVE-2023-39780. Attackers installed persistent backdoors, making detection difficult. Users are ...
Android Authority

Google targets cybercriminals behind massive Android malware scheme

Google is suing the creators of BadBox 2.0, a botnet that infected 10 million off-brand Android devices. The malware often came pre-installed on cheap streaming boxes, tablets, and projectors, mostly ...
Ars Technica

11 million devices infected with botnet malware hosted in Google Play

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 ...