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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

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Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.

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on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I’d not call it “software based” anymore.

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