{"id":5591,"date":"2025-07-24T05:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/google-sues-the-badbox-botnet-operators-html\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:03:14","slug":"google-sues-the-badbox-botnet-operators-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/google-sues-the-badbox-botnet-operators-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sues the Badbox Botnet Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Google Sues the Badbox Botnet Operators<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It will be interesting to watch what will come of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/google-sues-operators-of-10-million-device-badbox-2-0-botnet\/\">private lawsuit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Google on Thursday announced filing a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, which has ensnared more than 10 million devices running Android open source software.<\/p>\n<p>These devices lack Google\u2019s security protections, and the perpetrators pre-installed the Badbox 2.0 malware on them, to create a backdoor and abuse them for large-scale fraud and other illicit schemes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This reminds me of Meta\u2019s lawauit against Pegasus over its hack-for-hire software (which I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Platforms-Encryption-and-the-CFAA-1.pdf\">here<\/a>.) It\u2019s a private company stepping into a regulatory void left by governments.<\/p>\n<p>Slashdot <a href=\"https:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/07\/18\/2212220\/google-sues-operators-of-10-million-device-badbox-20-botnet\">thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/07\/google-sues-the-badbox-botnet-operators.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Sues the Badbox Botnet Operators It will be interesting to watch what will come of this private lawsuit: Google on Thursday announced filing a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, which has ensnared more than 10 million devices running Android open source software. These devices lack Google\u2019s security protections, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[646,945,57,457,163,258,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-5591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backdoors","category-botnets","category-bruce-schneier","category-courts","category-google","category-malware","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}