Phonemaker BLU settled with the US Federal Trade Commission this week and agreed to implement a "comprehensive data-security program" where it will be subjected to third-party assessments of its security program every two years for 20 years. BLU had been found to be sharing sensitive...
Last Tuesday, the Malwarebytes security research team warned that most Android devices will probably still have a backdoor which may send back sensitive data to servers in China. The team said that the backdoor is an unremovable app made by a Chinese developer called Adups,...
A week ago, Amazon suspended the sales of the Chinese company’s mobile phones on their site due to privacy concerns, but is seems the online shopping giant may have decided otherwise, putting the low-end Android devices back on the shelves again earlier this week. Android...
Last Tuesday, Amazon pronounced it will stop selling Blu smartphones on its site, following privacy concerns revealed by KryptoWire researchers at the recent Black Hat convention in Las Vegas. Blu provides units from Shanghai Adups Technology which was reported in November 2016 to have compromised its...
Russian cybersecurity firm researchers from Dr. Web were reported on Friday to have found Triada Trojan malware that's pre-programmed in low-end Android phones such as the Nomu S10 and S20, and the Leagoo M8 and M5 Plus. Though a cause for alarm, the researchers noted that...