Discovered: the First Major Botnet Living on Smartphones
We’ve all grown quite used to the idea of botnets stowing away on PCs out there on the Internet, spamming us from hacked inboxes in unknown places. Now, botnets are going mobile. Microsoft researcher Terry Zink says he’s discovered evidence that an illegal botnet has hijacked smartphones running Google’s Android operating system and used them to send spam from users’ Yahoo email accounts.
» via Popular Science
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