First case of Android Trojan spreading via mobile botnets discovered

Kaspersky Lab is reporting that "For the first time malware is being distributed using botnets that were created using completely different mobile malware. "

Isn't that special?

While annoying, it was only a matter of time.

Kaspersky describes the malware culprit, Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a, as the "most sophisticated Android Trojan yet." The Russian antivirus company also has said that Obad.a is looking "closer to Windows malware than to other Android Trojans, in terms of its complexity and the number of unpublished vulnerabilities it exploits.

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