Troubling.......Preinstalled Malware Targeting Mobile Users
The Check Point Mobile Threat Prevention has recently detected a severe infection in 36 Android devices, belonging to a large telecommunications company and a multinational technology company. While this is not unusual, one detail of the attacks stands out. In all instances, the malware was not downloaded to the device as a result of the users’ use, it arrived with it.
According to the findings, the malware were already present on the devices even before the users received them. The malicious apps were not part of the official ROM supplied by the vendor, and were added somewhere along the supply chain. Six of the malware instances were added by a malicious actor to the device’s ROM using system privileges, meaning they couldn’t be removed by the user and the device had to be re-flashed.
http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/03/10/preinstalled-malware-targeting-mobile-users/
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They can watch while your battery blows up.
After reading about all these problems, I'm pretty sure I'll never get one.
What I don't understand is, why doesn't the retail store just wipe out all the malware and useless apps (commonly called crapware) before they sell you the phone?
You'd think the store would want their customers to have a good experience with the phone, it's just smart business practice.
