Last month November,
it was discovered that a custom firmware powering nearly 700 million phones had
a backdoor injected in it which collects user data and send to China.
The recent discovery
by Trustlook, the security firm that inspected the infection shows that data
such as MAC address, IMEI number, IMSI, version number, call logs, SMS and
other information are collected transmitted to China
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According to Trustlook, they analyzed an app under the name
“com.adups.fota” and found out that the app role of app is to collects users
data from the infected device and upload to a domain called bigdata.adups.com
every 72 hours. Trustlook says that the app is usually pre-installed on all the
device that comes with the custom firmware.
Over 43 phone
manufactures running custom firmware developed by Chinese Firm developer, ADUPS
Technology suffered from this h*ck.
Popular manufacturers like Mediatek, Lenovo, BLU, ZTE and hoard of other
makes the list.
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So far, companies
like BLU and others that were using ADUPS firmware have already switched over
to Google for better security. Though most of these companies are Chinese
manufacturers, most of them have huge market outside their region. An example
is BLU which has sold over 120,000 in the United States alone.