Researcher Builds Mock Botnet Of ‘Twilight’-Loving…
Forbes reports from Jon Oberheide’s SummerCon talk on Android security. » Oberheide, who works for security startup Scio Security, developed an application called ‘RootStrap’ to demonstrate that trust problem for Android apps. After it’s installed, Rootstrap periodically ‘phones home’ to check for any new code that Oberheide wants to add to the program, including any hidden control program or ‘rootkit’ that he wished to install–hence the program’s name. ‘This is probably the most effective way to build a mobile botnet,’ Oberheide told SummerCon’s audience of hackers and security researchers. » The article links to the slides from the presentation which contain some more hard information.( Log in to post comments)
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