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Geost Botnet: Operational security failures lead to a new Android banking threat

This paper describes the rare discovery of a new Android banking botnet, named Geost, from the operational security failures of its botmaster. They made many mistakes, including using the illegal proxy network of the HtBot malware, not encrypting their Command and Control servers, re-using security services, trusting other attackers with less operational security, and not encrypting chat sessions.