The Keenadu malware was found installed from the manufacturer's factory.

Keenadu malware was found installed from the factory, the Android tablet maker can hack various apps on the machine.

Most of the risk of malware infection is due to putting yourself at risk or accidentally downloading yourself. But in a small but highly dangerous part, it comes back from secretly implanting malware into the manufacturing or transportation stage before holding the buyer's hand, which is called the Supply Chain Attack, or the Supply Chain Attack that was made news again this time.

According to a report by the website PC Mag, a research team from Kaspersky, a well-known anti-virus developer, revealed the detection of a malware type called Keenadu, which can allow hackers to access and control the machine and modify any application activated on the machine. This malware is embedded within the firmware of more than 13,000 Android-based tablets worldwide in Europe, Japan, Brazil and a variety of other countries, where the research team has assumed that malware may be secretly loaded into the firmware in the process. Produce or prepare firmware to update a method called Supply Chain Attack.

But don't worry too much, because the affected tablet is not a popular brand, but a Chinese brand called Alldocube, which is a cheap brand that mimics the famous brand. The brand's product was once available on the Amazon website and is now instead available on the Aliexpress website, which when it checks the Alldocube iPlayer 50 mini Pro tablet that uses the 2023 firmware (c. (2566) The firmware has been embedded since that time. In addition, the research team also found that the firmware of the following model year of this taplet contains all the malware.

The research team revealed the malware's insidious potential. The malware can spread on all applications installed on the machine. It is difficult to uninstall from an APK installation file (Android Package Kit), but it is very potent. The research team found that the current malware activity is simply Ads Fraud. ) to the victim only.

In addition to the malware attached to the machine from the factory, the research team also found that this malware lurks on the Smart Home Camera management application available for download on the official Android app store, Google Play Store. With more than 3 hundred thousand downloads, the malware on this application has lower potential. It only opens an invisible web browser to release fake ads to the victim. Notably, the malware will not work if the appropriate conditions are not set up in Chinese as the main language on the machine, not in the time zone. (Time Zone) in China, and there is no Google Play Store installed on board, but the good news is that Google has successfully removed this application from the app store.

The research team also warned that readers are asked to choose from devices from well-known developers and avoid ordering cheap machines from developers whose brand names are unknown to the black market to ensure the safety of users from malware installed on them.

For those who use such brand of tapplets, which in Thailand is probably quite a number, recently a revised firmware release was announced for update. Anyone who is using it has finished it.

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