Counterfeit Android Devices Revealed to Contain Backdoor Designed to Hack WhatsApp - Infosecurity Magazine

At least four different smartphones affected: ‘P48pro’, ‘radmi note 8’, ‘Note30u’ and ‘Mate40’

A team of mobile security researchers has discovered backdoors in the system partition of some budget Android device models that are counterfeit versions of known brand-name models.  The malware, wh… [+2085 chars]

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