Android TV box on Amazon came pre-installed with malware

[primestar31]

Android TV box on Amazon came pre-installed with malware

A Canadian system administrator discovered that an Android TV box purchased from Amazon was pre-loaded with persistent, sophisticated malware baked into its firmware.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

 

[Juan]

Was it a 3rd party vendor?

 

[ncted]

Msybe people should be a little more wary of rando devices purchased off the internet. Or rather, they already should have been.

 

[Bruce]

Msybe people should be a little more wary of rando devices purchased off the internet. Or rather, they already should have been.

Yep, if you go into the FAQs and reviews it keeps going into free everything and never have to pay for streaming content.

Whenever Kodi pops up as a major selling feature, you know it is a sketchy device.

This is from a answer on the FAQ page-

Yes. You can add more free apps that gets everything for free. No need to pay for streaming.

 

[primestar31]

Was it a 3rd party vendor?

You'd have to read the article I posted, and notice what he said about that.

 

[Juan]

You'd have to read the article I posted, and notice what he said about that.

At the end of the article...should have been in the first paragraph




BleepingComputer attempted to contact the listed seller on Amazon but could not find any website or email address associated with the brand.

 

[Josephinelcajon]

The internet and all the good and bad that comes with it. Times were so simple before it came. Scammers and fraud was still around but so much easier to avoid.