Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers

ronjor · May 11, 2023

Laura Dobberstein Thu 11 May 2023

Miscreants have infected millions of Androids worldwide with malicious firmware before the devices even shipped from their factories, according to Trend Micro researchers at Black Hat Asia.
This hardware is mainly cheapo Android mobile devices, though smartwatches, TVs, and other things are caught up in it.
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“Big brands like Samsung, like Google took care of their supply chain security relatively well, but for threat actors, this is still a very lucrative market,” said Yarochkin.
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