<ul><li>Experts uncovered a botnet of 190,000 Android devices infected by BadBox bot, primarily Yandex smart TVs and Hisense smartphones.</li><li>Bitsight researchers sinkholed a BADBOX domain and identified over 160,000 unique infected devices in 24 hours.</li><li>BADBOX-infected devices primarily found in Russia, China, India, Belarus, Brazil, and Ukraine, are sending telemetry to a C2 server.</li><li>The BadBox malware conducts ad fraud, creates email and messaging accounts for spreading disinformation, and can download additional payloads.</li></ul>

BadBox rapidly grows, 190,000 Android devices infected

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