That researchers at security firm ESET.
The used trojan is started on a smartphone, then he is not visible to users in the interface. It then looked at Twitter send commands. display the tweets sent to the botnet what to do exactly.
The botnet, according to the researchers difficult to completely block, partly because to identify communication channels on Twitter tricky. An account to operate with the malware quickly created by a cybercriminal.
Twitter has already been once used to operate a Windows botnet. The new malware is the first of its kind for Android. According to the discoverers, this new botnet since July 2016 active.
The malware would not be in the official Android app stores. Instead, the software is distributed through links and text messages
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