Abusing mobile devices for Denial of Service attacks

The growing popularity of mobile devices have led to the rise of mobile malware. It is also one of the reasons why amount of new mobile malware families, which are secretly connected over the internet to a remote Command & Control server, is increasing. It gives attackers possibility to create botnets for Denial of Service attacks or mining of cryptocurrencies. This paper discusses state of the art in computer and mobile security. Paper also presents proof of concept which can be used to abuse mobile devices´ capabilities for malicious purposes. Distributed Denial of Service attack scenario is presented using smartphones with Android operating system against wireless network. Measured results and techniques are presented such as description of Android application specially created for this purposes.