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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

arstechnica.com Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.

Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

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Badly titled ArsTechnica article warns of large multi-vector malware incursions in IoT and personal devices suspected to be Chinese in origin

arstechnica.com /security/2023/10/thousands-of-android-devices-come-with-unkillable-backdoor-preinstalled/

Badly [re-]titled ArsTechnica article warns of large multi-vector malware incursions in IoT and personal devices suspected to be Chinese in origin

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Thousands of Android (streaming) devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

arstechnica.com /security/2023/10/thousands-of-android-devices-come-with-unkillable-backdoor-preinstalled/

Thousands of Android (streaming) devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

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Definitely not unkillable tho
- installing your own OS and/or bootloader is a pain and most of the time unfeasable. And that's the only way to safely kill software based backdoors.
  
  Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can't be sure it's clean.
  
  on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I'd not call it "software based" anymore.

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