Mirai Victim Dyn Joins Team to Take Down Android Botnet WireX
ID: 270cd4d8-9002-5aaa-86d9-28ce12aaa392
STIX ID: report--270cd4d8-9002-5aaa-86d9-28ce12aaa392
Feed Name: Security Ledger
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A coalition of security firms (Akamai, Cloudflare, Google, Dyn/Oracle, Flashpoint, Team Cymru, RiskIQ) coordinated to disrupt the WireX botnet, which used malicious Android apps (about 300 removed from Google Play) to launch DDoS attacks from a global pool of roughly 70,000 IP addresses; the apps abused Android background service features to perform attacks while appearing benign to users.
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