On August 17th, a botnet that would later be named WireX struck the 'net, DDoSing a handful of CDNs and content providers. Cloudflare just revealed the details of the DDoS and the fight against it in a recent blog post. Researchers at the company as well as other affected organizations were able to combat the botnet by determining the source, which was primarily found to be Android devices running malicious applications, some of which were distributed by the Play Store.
Read MoreCloudFlare, Google, and others teamed up to take down WireX botnet distributed in ~300 apps on the Play Store was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
from Android Police – Android News, Apps, Games, Phones, Tablets http://ift.tt/2wDvNPB
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