Researchers from Akamai, Cloudflare, Flashpoint, Google, Oracle Dyn, RiskIQ, Team Cymru, and others joined forces to combat WireX, a botnet found targeting content delivery networks (CDNs) and content providers.
WireX comprises primarily Android devices running malicious applications and is designed to create DDoS traffic, a blog post compiled by the research consortium explains.
According to the post, Google found the malware available on its Play Store a few days ago and removed the hundreds of affected applications and started the process to remove the applications from all devices.
