Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
arstechnica.com
Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.
  • DoubletwistEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can’t be sure it’s clean.

    • @heeplr@feddit.deEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I’d not call it “software based” anymore.