{"id":2796,"date":"2012-07-06T20:25:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2019-01-12T22:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T16:47:39","slug":"discovered-the-first-major-botnet-living-on-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/technology\/discovered-the-first-major-botnet-living-on-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"First Major Botnet On Android Smartphones Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"
Till now we had only heard of botnets on PCs that usually spam us from hacked email accounts from unknown places. But now they have gone mobile. Terry Zink, Microsoft researcher claims that he has discovered evidence against\u00a0an illegal botnet has hijacked smartphones<\/a>\u00a0running on Google\u2019s Android operating system and used them to send spam from users\u2019 Yahoo email accounts.<\/p>\n Android has already suffered from security problems earlier. Mostly from Google Play where botnets disguised as popular apps (or pirates free versions of paid apps). Such apps are installed voluntarily by the user and then they infiltrate with the security of their Android smart phones. But Zink says that this is the first time ever when they have seen a major botnet living on Android devices.<\/p>\n Zink reported that the IP addresses used to sapm were from\u00a0Android devices in Chile, Indonesia, Lebanon, Oman, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Ukraine, and Venezuela. Zink noted that the data showed that users in the developing countries don’t bother about online security that much as compared to users in developed countries.<\/p>\n