Botnet Targeting to Infect Android Devices with Malware that Mines the Monero Cryptocurrency

Another botnet showed up over the weekend on Saturday, February 3 focused entirely on Android gadgets precisely being port 5555, which on gadgets running the Android OS is the port utilized by the operating system's native Android Debug Bridge (ADB), a troubleshooting interface which awards access to a portion of the operating system's most sensitive features

As per security researchers from Qihoo 360's Network Security Research Lab (Netlab) division, the ones who discovered the botnet, named ADB.miner , just gadgets, for example, cell phones, smart TVs, and television top boxes, running the Android OS have been tainted as of not long ago.

The botnet gives off an impression of being aggressive and continues growing every day, with
infected devices filtering the Web for other victims. As of now, the Botnet seems to have infected around 7,400 devices as detected by Netlab.

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