Chinese Backdoor Still Active

on Many Android Devices.

...firmware code created by a Chinese company called Adups was collecting vasts amount of user information and sending it to servers located in China.

...the backdoor code was collecting SMS messages, call history, address books, app lists, phone hardware identifiers, but it was also capable of installing new apps or updating existing ones.

Adups shipped out the backdoored component to other phone vendors and the component eventually made its way inside over 700 million devices.