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BadBox rapidly grows, 190,000 Android devices infected

A botnet known as BadBox has infected 190,000 Android devices, surveillance data from Bitsight has revealed. The botnet primarily targets Yandex smart TVs and Hisense smartphones, with most of the infected devices located in Russia, China, India, Belarus, Brazil, and Ukraine. In response, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has blocked communications between the 30,000 infected devices and the command and control server in Germany, through an operation known as “sinkholing”.

Source: securityaffairs.com –

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