Μήπως είστε πελάτης του Amazon; Η εταιρεία ασφάλειας Cheetah Mobile από την Κίνα, ανακάλυψε χιλιάδες μολυσμένα Android tablets που πωλούνται στο Amazon και έρχονται με προ-εγκατεστημένο κακόβουλο λογισμικό.
The company discovered the contamination from the data telemetry of its application. Upon further investigation of the data, they identified a Trojan they named Cloudsota. In all cases, customers said they bought the tablets from Amazon.
Not accidentally, all devices had very bad reviews, as many discovered applications they could not remove, popup ads, and hijacked browsers.
According to her malware analysts Cheetah Mobile, Cloudsota is distributed pre-installed on tablets, with root privileges and very aggressive behavior.
Cloudsota can install other applications (usually malware or adware), remove security applications, change the program's homepage tourς, να μεταβάλλει τα αποτελέσματα αναζήτησης του προγράμματος περιήγησης, την wallpaper of tablets, display ads in the boot animation, and more.
Cheetah Mobile reported that 17233 has so far detected infected devices and that this number could be much larger as it has been said to be able to remove security applications.
The researchers found over 30 different tablet chips that pre-installed Cloudsota, and all are still available on the internet. These brands include Alldaymall Tablet, FUSION5, JEJA 7 Zoll, JYJ 7, Tagital, and Yuntab SZ Wave.
All of the above manufacturers are from China. Cheetah Mobile said it contacted everyone but none of the companies responded to their request for a comment.