Badly [re-]titled ArsTechnica article warns of large multi-vector malware incursions in IoT and personal devices suspected to be Chinese in origin

3 years ago by ghostBones to c/technology

Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.

"In total the researchers confirmed eight devices with backdoors installed—seven TV boxes, the T95, T95Z, T95MAX, X88, Q9, X12PLUS, and MXQ Pro 5G, and a tablet J5-W. (Some of these have also been identified by other security researchers looking into the issue in recent months)."

edit this is the v4 of the title of this post. I'm not accustomed to editorializing or de-editorializing posts. I believe that the brand names involved were fairly trivial to the discussion of escalating malware cyberoperations especially if they are state sponsored. Earlier versions of the title were mischiefously incendiary. I apologize for that.

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unbuckled 18 points 3 years ago

Why does this headline say “AND Apple”?

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dylanmorgan 4 points 3 years ago

Because there are some iOS apps implicated, I assume. It’s definitely misleading, if you buy one of the tv boxes they talk about in the article you are almost certainly getting malware, if you buy an appletv even used, the chance it has malware that would survive a clean reinstall is minuscule.

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Ghostalmedia 3 points 3 years ago

Honestly, it’s an easy way to get upvotes with this community. A lot of people will upvote it without reading it, much less thinking critically about it for half a second.

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