Researchers at ESET have reported finding the world's first botnet of Android-devices, which is controlled by means of Twitter accounts. For botnet is malware Twitoor, download other malicious applications to infected devices and sent SMS-messages with malicious links.
According to the researchers, the malware Twitoor appeared about a month ago. Fortunately, malware is not in the official catalog of applications , instead it is distributed through spam. Twitoor masquerades pornopleer or program to work with MMS, but this " screen " is completely nominal, since such functionality does not have malware. Once the user has installed the application, and malware infected device, Twitoor hides all traces of its presence and begins to check Twitter for receiving further commands. In the future, the Trojan can download and install other dangerous applications device (mainly banking Trojans ), and change control Twitter accounts, switching from one to the other.
"The use of Twitter as a control server - an innovative approach to the Android- botnet , - ESET experts write . - In the future, we can expect that the bad guys will try to use for this purpose Facebook status or Steemit »
Although Twitter is used to manage Windows-botnets since 2009 for Android-malware is really the first time. Experts point out that this approach has a number of indisputable advantages. While conventional management server can arrest the police , and that would jeopardize the botnet . Management via Twitter, Facebook or Steemit accounts solves this problem . In addition, such traffic is almost suspicious that makes malware more inconspicuous .
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