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Malware-infested Xiaomi Mi 4 caught in the wild, looks genuine until deep inspection

March 9, 2015

Via: itCurated
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A few days ago, mobile data security company Bluebox got their hands on a Xiaomi Mi 4 handset to run a few tests on it. See, handsets built and sold in China rarely run a Google-certified version of the Android OS, which excludes them from Google services support and introduces a few vulnerabilities that can, and often are, exploited by malicious folk. And a brand like Xiaomi, being quite popular in its homeland, is a prime target for hackers.

Bluebox’s tests did indeed uncover more than a few worrisome articles – an ad pushing process; a mysterious app, named Yt Service, whose developer …

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