Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year agoThat’s the problem, they’re not running Android TV at all. Just regular phone Android with some third party launcher.
Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year agoThat’s the problem, they’re not running Android TV at all. Just regular phone Android with some third party launcher.
planish@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Are you sure? One can definitely build images of the actual “Android TV” for various SBCs and the sorts of SOCs in these TV boxes, and then load them up with malware. Why wouldn’t they use that?
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honestly, I’m not entirely sure why, but for whatever reason these boxes are always running a pretty old version of Android.
Maybe there are more protections preventing this kind of malware on newer versions? Maybe someone just made the images a long time ago and people are just reusing them