Author/Source: Brian Krebs See the full link here
Takeaway
This article uncovers who was behind the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets that used infected Android phones. You will learn how these criminals made money by tricking app stores and running scams.
Technical Subject Understandability
Beginner
Analogy/Comparison
Running a botnet is like someone secretly using your phone and thousands of others to make money for themselves, like a puppeteer controlling many puppets without their owners knowing.
Why It Matters
It matters because these botnets used people’s phones without their knowledge, stealing their internet data and making apps seem more popular than they are. For example, one person mentioned, David D. Zakharyan, made money by installing apps on infected phones to trick app stores into ranking them higher.
Related Terms
Botnet, Click fraud, Pay-per-install (PPI) scheme. Jargon Conversion: A botnet is a group of many computers or phones infected with secret software, all controlled by one person to do bad things. Click fraud is when a computer program pretends to click on online ads to make money for scammers instead of real people. A Pay-per-install (PPI) scheme is a way for scammers to get paid by secretly installing apps on people’s devices to make those apps look more popular.
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