Security News > 2021 > February > Android Devices Prone to Botnet’s DDoS Onslaught

Researchers are warning a new botnet is recycling the Mirai malware framework and is now targeting Android devices in order to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks.

The botnet propagates through the Android Debug Bridge interface.

Mirai is an infamous botnet most widely known for its massive DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn in 2016, which crippled Internet service on the East Coast of the United States and took down several popular services.

After establishing a connection with the TOR proxy, the botnet communicates with the TOR C2 through the proxy and waits for the execution of the commands sent by C2. Who is Behind the Matryosh Botnet?

Moobot is a fairly new botnet family based on Mirai botnet, which targets internet of things devices.

Matryosh is only one of many recent botnet strains to surface, which over the past years have included Kaiji, Dark Nexus, MootBot and the DDG botnet.

News URL

https://threatpost.com/android-devices-prone-to-botnets-ddos-onslaught/163680/