Researcher Builds Mock Botnet Of ‘Twilight’-Loving Android Users

“A word of caution to any Android users who downloaded an app
over the past weekend promising pictures of the next Twilight film:
Next time, your obsession with vampires might just turn your phone
into a zombie.

“In a talk at the hacker conference SummerCon last Friday,
researcher Jon Oberheide gave a demonstration of just how easy it
may be to infect large numbers of phones running Google’s Android
OS with hidden software that turns the devices into a zombie-like
“botnet” under the control of a cybercriminal–particularly if that
software associates itself with a phenomenon as popular and
tween-entrancing as the upcoming Twilight Eclipse film.”

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