The Google Android security and privacy team has confirmed that a backdoor was found to have been successfully pre-installed on newly shipped, factory fresh, Android smartphones.
how a banking Trojan called Triada had been found on a bunch of brand new budget Android smartphones. Google has now confirmed that threat actors did, indeed, manage to compromise Android smartphones with the installation of a backdoor as part of a supply chain attack.researchers first uncovered
The story evolved, along with the Triada malware itself, during the summer of 2017. Researchers at Dr. Web found that instead of relying upon being able to root the smartphone to elevate privileges, the threat actors had moved on to even more advanced attack methodologies., used a call in the Android framework log function instead. In other words, the infected devices had a backdoor installed.
The Android system images were infected through"a third-party during the production process," Siewierski explained. When a device manufacturer wants to include features that aren't part of the Android Open Source Project itself, and Siewierski uses the example of face unlock here, it might engage a third-party to develop this and so sends the entire system image to them for that development process.
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