ESET has been forced to fend off a DDoS attack facilitated by a malicious news app hosted in the Google Play Store.
On Monday, ESET researcher Lukas Stefanko described how the app, named “Updates for Android,” promised users a free daily news feed. The app appeared to gather good reviews with an overall score of 4.3, but secretly, the software was creating a bot of slave devices in order to launch Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.
