Tech organisations recently cooperated to stop a DDoS attack from the WireX botnet, which took place\u00a0on 17 August.<\/p>\n
Akamai, Cloudflare, Flashpoint, and RiskIQ released a report about the attack, revealing that the WireX botnet aimed attacks at several content delivery networks – drawing the attention of researchers from around the world.<\/p>\n
Researchers from Akamai, Cloudflare, Flashpoint, Google, Oracle Dyn, RiskIQ, Team Cymru, and other organisations then cooperated to combat the botnet.<\/p>\n
The WireX botnet comprises primarily Android devices running malicious apps, and is designed to create DDoS traffic. WireX was also associated with ransom notes to targets in certain instances.<\/p>\n
Cloudflare reported<\/a><\/strong> that\u00a0Google was alerted to the availability of the malware on its Play Store, and subsequently\u00a0removed hundreds of affected applications.<\/p>\n It has also started a process to remove the applications from infected devices.<\/p>\n Tech organisations recently cooperated to stop a DDoS attack from the WireX botnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":190160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3340,723,29694,45649,167,10100,45651,45653,45655,45657],"class_list":["post-226791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-akamai","tag-amazon","tag-cloudflare","tag-flashpoint","tag-google","tag-google-play","tag-oracle-dyn","tag-riskiq","tag-team-cymru","tag-wirex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226805,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226791\/revisions\/226805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Watch out for this Facebook message which contains malware<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"