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China’s Tecno company sold thousands of cheap smartphones with malware in Africa – 7NEWS.com.au
Anti-fraud platform Secure-D says the pre-installed malware took advantage of vulnerable people from low-income households.
Software that eats up mobile data and registers people for unwanted subscriptions has been found pre-installed on thousands of low-cost Chinese smartphones more than two years after it was first detected.
The Triada malware signs mobile users up to subscription services without their permission and has been discovered on Tecno W2 smartphones in countries such as Ethiopia, Ghana, Cameroon and South Africa, according to a report published this week in partnership with BuzzFeed.
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