{"id":9505,"date":"2026-08-21T17:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/android-car-malware-spreads-through-built-in-updaters-for-ad-fraud-proxy-botnet\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:12:21","slug":"android-car-malware-spreads-through-built-in-updaters-for-ad-fraud-proxy-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/android-car-malware-spreads-through-built-in-updaters-for-ad-fraud-proxy-botnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that&#8217;s specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun.<\/p>\n<p>Kaspersky, which discovered the threat in June 2026, said the end goal of the malware is to serve a multi-stage downloader to enable ad fraud and creation of a proxy botnet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The malware spread through the built-in updaters of\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that&#8217;s specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun.<\/p>\n<p>Kaspersky, which discovered the threat in June 2026, said the end goal of the malware is to serve a multi-stage downloader to enable ad fraud and creation of a proxy botnet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The malware spread through the built-in updaters of\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that&#8217;s specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun. Kaspersky, which discovered the threat in June 2026, said the end goal of the malware is to serve a multi-stage downloader to enable ad fraud and creation of a proxy botnet. &#8220;The malware spread&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/android-car-malware-spreads-through-built-in-updaters-for-ad-fraud-proxy-botnet\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}