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Over the course of two months last year the Copycat malware infected 14 million Android devices and rooted more than half of them, roughly eight million devices. Continue reading CopyCat Malware Infected 14M Android Devices, Rooted 8M, in 2016
A newly discovered strain of Android malware earned hackers $1.5 million, with researchers pointing to a Chinese ad firm as possibly being responsible for the malware’s spread. The malware, called CopyCat, infected 14 million Android devices, rooted 8 million phones and had 3.8 million devices serve ads, according to the Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Technologies. Victims were mainly in South and Southeast Asia, but over 280,000 Android users in the United States were also infected. India was the hardest hit nation with over 3.8 million victims from the CopyCat campaign. Researchers from Check Point released a report on the threat on Thursday calling out CopyCat’s “unprecedented success rate.” CopyCat uses an arsenal of exploits that are, at the most recent, two years old. The oldest exploit, CVE-2013-6282 (VROOT), dates back to 2013. The success of the campaign is a testament to the fact that millions of users are operating old, unpatched and […]
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