Powerful backdoor/rootkit found preinstalled on 3 million Android phones

Minimalist · Nov 18, 2016

Almost three million Android phones, many of them used by people in the US, are vulnerable to code-execution attacks that remotely seize full control of the devices, researchers said Thursday.

Until recently, the flaw could have been exploited by anyone who took the time to obtain two Internet domains that remained unregistered despite being hardwired into the firmware that introduced the vulnerability. After discovering the vulnerability, researchers from security ratings firm BitSight Technologies registered the addresses and control them to this day.
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IvoShoen · Nov 18, 2016

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/secret-backdoor-in-some-us-phones-sent-data-to-china.389980/

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