- Aug 17, 2014
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Major New WireX Android Botnet Neutralized by Cross-Vendor Collaborative Research
Black clouds on the internet do sometimes have a silver lining. Global attacks such as those from Mirai last year and WannaCry/NotPetya this year have fomented informal collaborative global responses -- one of which happened this month when multiple competitive vendors collaborated in the research and neutralization of a major new botnet called WireX.
The collaboration was informal. Security experts often move around the industry, but usually retain good relationships and continue those relationships. This happened with WireX. It first appeared on August 2nd, but was small enough to be ignored. Two weeks later it ramped up into something altogether different.
In a joint and coordinated announcement and series of blogs, Flashpoint, Akamai, Cloudflare, and RiskIQ have today explained how their researchers, together with researchers from other organizations, detected, collaborated, and ultimately neutralized the botnet.
Full article: Tech Firms Unite to Neutralize WireX Android Botnet | SecurityWeek.Com
Black clouds on the internet do sometimes have a silver lining. Global attacks such as those from Mirai last year and WannaCry/NotPetya this year have fomented informal collaborative global responses -- one of which happened this month when multiple competitive vendors collaborated in the research and neutralization of a major new botnet called WireX.
The collaboration was informal. Security experts often move around the industry, but usually retain good relationships and continue those relationships. This happened with WireX. It first appeared on August 2nd, but was small enough to be ignored. Two weeks later it ramped up into something altogether different.
In a joint and coordinated announcement and series of blogs, Flashpoint, Akamai, Cloudflare, and RiskIQ have today explained how their researchers, together with researchers from other organizations, detected, collaborated, and ultimately neutralized the botnet.
Full article: Tech Firms Unite to Neutralize WireX Android Botnet | SecurityWeek.Com
