Videostrong accused of shipping devices with a backdoor baked in A coalition of private sector security firms working with Japans National Police Agency has disrupted XCPE, a backdoor used to build a massive botnet comprising more than 1.3 million Android devices across more than 200 countries. Google, Lumen, Human Security, Plume, Synthient, and TrendAI participated in the disruption. “We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and...
