Low-cost Android phones ship with residential proxy malware - BleepingComputer

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A malware campaign dubbed 'Midnight Mimosa' has been discovered on low-cost Android smartphones that ship with malicious software embedded in their firmware, allowing attackers to silently install apps, perform ad fraud, and turn devices into residential proxies. Unlike typical Android malware that requires users to install a malicious application, Midnight Mimosa is already installed in the device's system partition when customers receive their phones. For affected consumers, removing the malware is difficult because the malware is installed as a high-privileged system application.

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