700 Million Androids Pre-Installed with Chinese Spyware

[BADecker]

700 Million Androids Pre-Installed with Chinese Spyware

Security analyst firm Kryptowire first discovered the privacy breach in November 2016. Adups data mining was revealed almost by accident by a Kryptowire employee who discovered a backdoor allowing information to be leaked. After that, antivirus manufacturer Trustlook dug deeper and the scope of the privacy violations facilitated by Adups was quickly shown to be significant. The Adups data collector was found to collect text messages, call history, and device information from phones upon which it is installed.

Adups denied that the software is used to collect private user data, but was instead put in place "to identify junk text messages and calls." They then referred to the installation of it on US phones as a "mistake." The majority of Android phones that use Adups are smaller companies that only release devices in Asia. However, BLU Products (which claims to have sold 35 million devices in the Western hemisphere) and several other well-known manufacturers including Lenovo and ZTE also install Adups firmware on their smartphones. BLU announced that they will no longer use Adups firmware on their phones, switching it out for one made by Google. Lenovo, ZTE, and others have followed suit.

Read more at https://sputniknews.com/science/201612231048900034-android-devices-preinstalled-chinese-spyware/.

[fikihafana]

chinese sucks, they want to explore the world

[AdolfinWolf]

Wait for all the Apple fanboys, telling that they "don't get spied/hacked"  . Privacy and security is such a limited thing these days.. I guess that the government in the U.S has access to everyone's phone, without even installing malware, its just that the operating system has tons of backdoors created especially for them.

I guess it is a good thing that this is found out, imagine noone noticed...

[BADecker]

We have all seen all the articles and information about fake news that is coming out these days. One of the best ways to hide the fact of what is really going on, is to talk about everything else.

When you see a big push on some political scene, like flaring up of new war in the ME, or like climate change, of like a big focus on drugs, these are all being used to take our eyes off something that is way more important.

[Sex Video Chat VKcams.com]

Why to send the hate to chinese people?
This problem is affected only by devices producted by http://bluproducts.com/home/

I love products, that are Made In China (PRC).
They help me in my life and help me to earn the Money.

Other of that, chinese people are friendly and honest.

[AdolfinWolf]

Why to send the hate to chinese people?
This problem is affected only by devices producted by http://bluproducts.com/home/

I love products, that are Made In China (PRC).
They help me in my life and help me to earn the Money.

Other of that, chinese people are friendly and honest.

Good for you, but do know that you are helping the world going down. Every product made in china is made without any concern for nature, the environment, the ecosystem,
China is #1 country accounted for 15%  cause of the pollution which is mostly the cause for the current climate change, which for sure isn't a hoax.
So surely you made some $$ profit off of china's product, but you don't want to know what that costed to the environment.

It is totally ruined. They have rivers that are colored red due to illegal waste (from factories producing goods...) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3541401/Apocalypse-Alarming-images-Chinese-waterway-turning-BLOOD-RED-illegal-waste-discharge.html

[Sex Video Chat VKcams.com]

Every product made in china is made without any concern for nature, the environment, the ecosystem,
China is #1 cause of the pollution which is mostly the cause for the current climate change, which for sure isn't a hoax.

Are You sure of this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_policy_in_China

Chinese people use widely the Sun energy.

[CryptoCypherCoin]

that's pure madness

[pnuts2012]

700 Million Androids Pre-Installed with Chinese Spyware
Thats Insane!! 700 million devices android should sue the pants off them.