Speaking this week at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit in Singapore, Android security engineer Maddie Stone shed new light on the years-long battle between Google’s mobile operating system and a particularly nasty malware known as Chamois. As Decipher reports, beating the botnet was far from easy.
Chamois, which at its peak infected nearly 21 million Android devices, is incredibly sophisticated and dangerous, bleeding users of cash and information without them even realizing it. The battle to halt its spread has led to new Android security features and, after nearly three years, Google finally has the upper hand.
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