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Pre-Installation Service Used to Install Malware on Android Phones in China

31
Mar
2014

Earlier this month, to mark the Worlds Consumer Rights Day, Chinas leading TV station CCTV demonstrated how companies could easily pre-install malware on millions of Android smartphones.

Kasperskys Dong Yan has detailed the TV station and the security firms findings in a blog post. One piece of malware thats been pre-installed on a large number of Android devices has been dubbed DataService (Trojan.AndroidOS.Uupay.a).

The threat is capable of …

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