Kaspersky Lab says mobile botnets are being used to distribute the Obad.a Trojan, which can gain administrative rights on an Android device. Eset says Hesperbot is a mobile banking Trojan along the lines of Zeus and SpyEye, but with significant implementation differences that make it a new malware family. For the first time, malware is being distributed using botnets that were created using completely different mobile malware, researcher Roman Unuchek wrote in a blog post. The Trojan has been closely watched by security researchers since the summer.”]
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