Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
arstechnica.com
Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.

“In total the researchers confirmed eight devices with backdoors installed—seven TV boxes, the T95, T95Z, T95MAX, X88, Q9, X12PLUS, and MXQ Pro 5G, and a tablet J5-W. (Some of these have also been identified by other security researchers looking into the issue in recent months).”

edit this is the v4 of the title of this post. I’m not accustomed to editorializing or de-editorializing posts. I believe that the brand names involved were fairly trivial to the discussion of escalating malware cyberoperations especially if they are state sponsored. Earlier versions of the title were mischiefously incendiary. I apologize for that.

  • ghostBones@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    64·
    1 year ago

    I respectfully disagree. Ars Technica is not known for being a clickbait site. They are merely stating what platform(s) the malware runs on. It’s not an Android hit piece, and it’s not clickbait, it’s just a warning about buying cheap Chinese electronics that have access to your Wi-Fi.

    • SpiderShoeCultEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s a Wired article though, they sometimes run those too and the quality of them, at least from my perspective, is dubious.