[ThreatPost]Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run

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Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run

It's not every day that you get a security story that involves Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, but that's what has happened with the claims from a Microsoft official that there was an Android-based botnet in existence sending spam from compromised devices. Now it seems that the spam emanating from Android phones may be the result of a bug the Yahoo Mail app that enables attackers to sniff traffic and compromise users' accounts.

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Source: Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run