Google has removed 8 Play Store apps, some with more than 2.6 million downloads, after researchers pointed out that these apps added devices to a botnet capable of performing DDoS attacks.
BrickerBot is a permanent denial-of-service botnet for IoT devices like smart toasters. These new iterations of BrickerBot have 4 times as many attacks as before and prove that companies need to get serious about IoT devices.
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