Many Android devices come with unkillable backdoor
Security researcher, Daniel Milisic, discovered a cheap Android TV streaming box called the T95 was infected with malware right out of the box. His findings were backed by other researchers as well. This week, Human Security unveiled new details of the infected devices and the hidden, interconnected web of fraud schemes linked to the streaming boxes. The researchers found seven Android TV boxes and one tablet with the backdoors installed, along with 200 other Android devices, an exclusive report shared with The Wire revealed. While Human Security has taken down advertising fraud linked to the scheme, these devices are still present in homes, businesses, and schools. “They’re like a Swiss Army knife of doing bad things on the Internet,” says Gavin Reid, the CISO at Human Security who leads the company’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research team. “This is a truly distributed way of doing fraud.” Reid added that the company also shared details of...