Security researchers have discovered malware that could be assembling a botnet army composed of five million compromised Android devices. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Check Point said that the RottenSys malware was targeted at Android users through an app disguised as a WiFi service. It was originally used as malware to serve fraudulent ads on users’ displays. Sean Newman, Director at Corero Network security commented below.
Sean Newman, Director at Corero Network Security:
“Service providers should be looking at real-time DDoS protection at the core of their mobile networks to protect all their users and services. As they migrate to higher-bandwidth 5G mobile services, this issue will only become more acute and additional segmentation, from a security and DDoS perspective, should be considered, to avoid some parts of their networks attacking others.”
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