A nascent malware campaign has been spotted co-opting Android devices into a botnet with the primary purpose of carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Called “Matryosh” by Qihoo 360’s Netlab researchers, the latest threat has been found reusing the Mirai botnet framework. It propagates through exposed Android Debug Bridge (ADB) interfaces to infect Android devices and ensnare them into its network. ADB is a command-line tool part of the Android SDK that handles communications and allows developers to install and debug apps.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/beware-new-matryosh-ddos-botnet.html