Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
arstechnica.com
Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.
  • Bizarroland@kbin.social
    71·
    1 year ago

    I like how they say that only people with technical skills can remediate this malware but many of these boxes are very cheap, I’ve seen them on AliExpress for $15 or so.

    To replace the firmware is about a 1-hour task following online guides.

    So if being cheap is your primary objective it’s definitely not off the table to buy these boxes, just know that when you buy them your first task before they are ever connected to the network is to reflash them.

    • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Not really the same thing.

      The LTT video (which was started by the same report as the Wired article ars reproduced) attempts to talk more deeply about what’s on the boxes.

      The linked article, however, talks about the further investigations that took place into the C2 service behind these boxes, and what steps were taken to try and stop them.