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Google pulls 300 WireX malware-carrying apps from the Play store – Fanvive.com


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Google pulls 300 WireX malware-carrying apps from the Play store
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Google pulled around 300 malicious apps from their Play Store this week after learning the apps carried code to hijack Android phones and enlist them into part of the WireX DDoS botnet. Most of the affected apps included media/video players, ringtones
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New DDoS Threat “WireX” Harnesses Android Devices But Tech Companies Are Fighting Back – Casino.Org News


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New DDoS Threat “WireX” Harnesses Android Devices But Tech Companies Are Fighting Back
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Google was forced to remove around 300 Android apps from its Google Play Store this week after it emerged that they contained embedded malware that facilitated a new kind of distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), dubbed the WireX botnet.

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Dangerous WireX Android DDoS Botnet Killed by Security Giants – Hack Read


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Dangerous WireX Android DDoS Botnet Killed by Security Giants
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IT Security Vendors Successfully neutralized Deadly WireX Android Botnet through Collaboration – Google Removes Malicious Infected Apps from Play Store. Attacks like those launched through Mirai botnet in 2016 or WannaCry and NotPetya in 2017 had a …

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