How Androxgh0st rose from Mozi's ashes to become 'most prevalent malware'

After the Mozi botnet mysteriously disappeared last year, a new and seemingly more powerful botnet, Androxgh0st, rose from its ashes and has quickly become a major threat to critical infrastructure. As of December, at least one security shop suspects the new hybrid botnet is being weaponized by the Chinese government. "Based …

[Blackjack]

Considering these botnets tend to autodelete if Wifi routers get turned off for a few minutes, maybe that can get used if someone can prevent reinfection.

[trindflo]

turn off wifi for a few minutes?

Turning off the wifi for a few minutes sounds like a quick and easy method if it works. I just looked around for confirmation and couldn't find it. Could you share a reference?

[Not_A_Hat]

Re: turn off wifi for a few minutes?

He probably meant turn off the whole 'wifi router', not just the wifi; likely smaller malware doesn't write itself to disk, but stays in the ram to avoid detection. So yeah, power-cycling the machine could wipe it. But that only really matters if you fix the security hole, or it'll just re-infect from the same source. Or you just keep your router off forever after.