It will be interesting to watch what will come of this private lawsuit:
Google on Thursday announced filing a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, which has ensnared more than 10 million devices running Android open source software.
These devices lack Google’s security protections, and the perpetrators pre-installed the Badbox 2.0 malware on them, to create a backdoor and abuse them for large-scale fraud and other illicit schemes.
This reminds me of Meta’s lawauit against Pegasus over its hack-for-hire software (which I wrote about …
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