<ul><li>The German agency BSI has sinkholed a botnet composed of 30,000 devices infected with BadBox malware pre-installed.</li><li>The BSI blocked communication between the infected devices and the C2 server, isolating the malware.</li><li>BadBox malware conducts ad fraud, creates email accounts for spreading disinformation, and operates as a residential proxy.</li><li>At least 74,000 Android-based devices worldwide were shipped with the backdoored firmware.</li></ul>

German agency BSI sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices infected with BadBox

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