Everyone
wants to go cheaper especially when cheaper versions are almost at the same
level of quality as those expensive ones. For phones, people are turning to
cheaper versions more as long as the quality is reliable enough. Although
cheaper prices means more savings, these cheaper phones may come at a bigger
price than what users originally signed up for.
Security
analysts from Black Hat has recently discovered a series of cheap phones from
China that are secretly sending private information tracked from these phones
back to their home country. The Chinese software provider of Blu R1 HD, the
phone which researchers have detected as sending these information, have
indicated that the incident was just a “mistake.” Further investigation however
has proven that it wasn’t only the Blu R1 HD model contained the said
“mistaken” software but also other phones to which the software provider also
has access to. According to one researcher involved in the investigation, the
software provider merely replaced the detected “mistaken” software with nicer
versions but with the same function of sending private data back to China.
The
said software can access the phone’s command and control channel. This means
that the software can allow an unknown third party, such as the one it is
sending the data to, to execute commands as if the phone is being used by its
user at real time. This means that the third party is allowed to take pictures,
make calls, install apps, download and upload files without the permission of
the phone’s owner. There are also additional findings that state that the
software also allows location best sms tracker
and data gathering including those that are particular to the person who owns
the phone such as contact lists, apps installed and used, passwords, accounts
and even internet
ShanghaiAdups Technology, the developer behind this malicious software, has declared
that the issues related to said tracking are “not existing anymore” and have
been resolved since 2016. This statement is however contrary to the recent
findings of security analysts and other researchers on different phones whose
software are provided by Adups.
The
Black Hat conference was held amid several reports about government hacking
including the hacking that occurred during the 2016 Russian Presidential
Elections. Black Hat researchers have considered their current findings as
alarming. This is due to the fact that recently an influx of tracking apps and
tools are now available online for download which may invade the privacy of
mobile phone users without their knowledge. The finding that a pre-installed
software on a mobile phone that could be tracking the user’s
every move is more shocking as it consists a breach of trust between the mobile
phone provider and that of their customer.
It
remains a mystery as to what becomes of the private data that was sent to China
by these cheaper phones. Adups has stated that the data are to be deleted once
received but there has been no concrete showing that the same was actually done
by the said company.
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