Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

https://lemmy.world/post/6465002

Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled - Lemmy.world

“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).”

Why did this headline say “AND Apple”?
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.