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Google pulls 300 Android apps that secretly hijacked phones for DDoS attacks 2017-08-30 12:47:34 Post No. 62156736
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Google pulls 300 Android apps that secretly hijacked phones for DDoS attacks
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2017-08-30 12:47:34
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/29/16219426/google-removes-apps-play-store-hijack-phones-ddos-attacks
>Around 300 apps have been withdrawn from Google’s Play Store after they were found to be secretly hijacking Android devices to supply traffic for wide-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, as noted by Gizmodo. Google removed apps that offered services like ringtones and storage managers after security researchers uncovered the “WireX” botnet was behind the ploy. Malware was hidden inside the affected apps, and as long as the device remained switched on it was used in DDoS attacks.
>Researchers at cloud services provider Akamai discovered WireX after a hospitality company suffered from a DDoS attack involving hundreds of thousands of IP addresses. DDoS attacks work by overwhelming a target with large amounts of data from multiple IP addresses, and they’re effective at taking down websites and services that can’t cope with a data influx. Google said in a statement it’s currently in the process of removing the malicious apps from affected devices, and some researchers say up to 70,000 devices in 100 countries could be compromised. Some of the WireX attacks also asked for ransom fees.
>Researchers from Akami, Cloudflare, Flashpoint, Google, Team Cymru, and others are working together to combat the botnet, which came to their attention on August 17. “Once the larger collaborative effort began, the investigation began to unfold rapidly starting with the investigation of historic log information, which revealed a connection between the attacking IPs and something malicious, possibly running on top of the Android operating system,” the researchers wrote in a joint blog post.
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You should know better, /g/. It's not too late to buy an iPhone.
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>installing garbage applications that do stupid things like that
>Not using alternate stores for your installs
>Not using open source software
>>62156767
I like having some level of control over my phone, thanks
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>>62156805
The alternate stores are less likely to remove malicious apps since they most likely don't have the resources to detect and combat malware that Google does.
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>>62156842
I'm talking about fdroid mostly, which often has the source code readily available.
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Do you even know who the CEO of apple is?
2017-08-30 12:56:34
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>>62156767
And get all my shit leaked through icloud hacks on a yearly basis? nah, I'm good lol.
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>>62156805
Me too. I like being able to control whether or not it is being used for random DDos attacks without my knowledge.
This is why I’m so glad I bought an iPhone instead of shitty google android devices.
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>>62156870
Links to any of those leaks?
Mainly the Anne Hathaway and Kristen Stewart ones
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>>62156866
F-Droid doesn't have most of the apps that I use, and the ones that they do have already are also available on the Play Store.
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>>62156933
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Wow, keep that shit taste in check. Sick fuck.
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>>62156931
>Installing ring tone software
>Installing pajeet wallpaper manager
You being incompetent means Android is bad, somehow? Sounds like a personal problem
>>62156937
Okay. It has the ones I use except two, but the two I use weren't in the list of affected applications. And even if an application can be found on both stores, I would install it from fdroid anyways
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>>62156997
But android fags always said Pajeet ring tone software, Pajeet wallpaper software and Pajeet ROMS were one of the great advantages of android. Now suddenly you admit they’re useless dangerous crap.
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>>62156736
People still read The Verge?
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Would be helpful if they listed the applications in question, though likely these are all "BATTERY EXTENDER VERY NICE PLEASE" variety
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>>62157035
I'm not speaking for anyone but myself, please don't assume I am all Android users. Secondly, I've never heard of anyone talking about any of the applications that were removed so I don't know where you're getting that information. Do you have links to articles or threads in the archive were people talked about how amazing some of these infected applications were?
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>>62156933
Wow, are you me? You sick fuck.
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>>62156933
>go to any tube site like pornhub
>search for fappening 2017
>???
>fapccess
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>>62156736
the power of android
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