Symantec Concludes Just Eight Google Play 'Minecraft' Apps May Have Added Millions to Botnets | #CyberSecurity  | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
In a blog post on Wednesday, Symantec security researchers wrote they had discovered at least eight Google Play Store apps that functioned as fronts for a “new and highly prevalent type of Android malware” called Android.Sockbot. The apps in question presented themselves as skins for player characters in popular app Minecraft: Pocket Edition and boasted “an install base ranging from 600,000 to 2.6 million devices.”

 

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