
RottenSys, the name of a strain of malware, is being used in a Chinese malware operation that was building a huge botnet of almost 5 million Android devices. This Android malware in its current form is being utilized by the crooks to display ads on infected devices quite aggressively. However, it seems that the cybercriminals behind this strain of malware are deploying a new module written in Lua to gather all the infected Android devices to form a massive botnet based on the pieces of evidence…