Google lawsuit targets operators of ‘BADBOX 2.0’ in major botnet disruption

**Executive Summary:** Google has filed a civil suit against operators of the BADBOX 2.0 botnet, which reportedly infected millions of Android AOSP-based consumer devices worldwide (including millions of unique IPs and large clusters in New York), using firmware-resident malware to create residential proxies for large-scale ad fraud and data theft; the FBI issued a public advisory and domain disruptions were performed to mitigate the threat.