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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"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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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Clarifying "Android" here feels misleading. Sure, they're all Android devices, but they're not what people think of when they think of Android devices. And they're also unlikely to be the ones most people buy.

You could also say "cheap Chinese TV boxes" and it'd still be accurate, and the devices people would think of would be more closely related to the actual devices in question.

This has basically nothing to do with Android. You might as well say "plastic TV boxes" at that point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I respectfully disagree. Ars Technica is not known for being a clickbait site. They are merely stating what platform(s) the malware runs on. It's not an Android hit piece, and it's not clickbait, it's just a warning about buying cheap Chinese electronics that have access to your Wi-Fi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's a Wired article though, they sometimes run those too and the quality of them, at least from my perspective, is dubious.

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