Android botnet discovered

While malware on Android isn’t exactly unheard of, it looks like there’s more than meets the eye. A Microsoft researcher recently came across some interesting spam emails that were delivered via Yahoo! Mail servers. In addition to being sent from their servers, he noticed that the emails also originated from Android devices. With this info, he came to the conclusion that a spammer has control of a botnet that lives on Android devices.
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