Google Sues Operators of 10-Million-Device Badbox 2.0 Botnet

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Google on Thursday announced filing a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, which has ensnared more than 10 million devices running Android open source software.

These devices lack Google’s security protections, and the perpetrators pre-installed the Badbox 2.0 malware on them, to create a backdoor and abuse them for large-scale fraud and other illicit schemes.

While updates to Google Play Protect kept the malware away from devices running Google services and automatically blocked associated applications, the fresh lawsuit is meant to help the internet giant dismantle the criminal operation behind the botnet.

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Google Sues Operators of 10-Million-Device Badbox 2.0 Botnet

Google has filed a lawsuit against the Badbox 2.0 botnet operators, after identifying over 10 million infected Android devices.

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