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BERLIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 27: A particpant checks a circuit board next to an oscilloscope on the first day of the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) - Behind Enemy Lines computer hacker conference on December 27, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The Chaos Computer Club is Europe s biggest network of computer hackers and its annual congress draws up to 3,000 participants.
The new malware targets millions of Android gadgets including smartphones, TVs, set-top boxes, tablets, and more. This new malicious botnet malware was said to focus on drafting the targeted devices into a giant botnet.
According to Toms Guide, Qihoo 360 Netlab s security experts were the first ones to discover it. They called it Matryosh Malware since it has many layered functions, which is comparable with Russia s popular matryoshka nesting dolls.