Malware Detected on Phones from Chinese Phone Manufacturer

Malware has been detected in more than two hundred thousand devices manufactured by the Chinese phone manufacturer. Details about the scandal are in our news.

Transsion is a smartphone manufacturer that stands out with its affordable smartphones. Smart phone manufacturer based in China that produce thousands of affordable smartphones in the Transsion malware was detected. It is claimed that the number of phones with malware detected is more than 200 thousand. Details about the scandal that occurred on the Tecno W3 smartphones of Transsion company are in our news.

Malware Scandal on Transsion Company's Phones

Upstream's Secure-D platform revealed that Transsion Tecno W3 smartphones in 14 countries, including Ethiopia, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana and South Africa, registered to some subscription services without the consent of the users. 

More than 200 thousand Transsion Tecno W3 models have so far made a total of 19.2 million suspicious transactions without users' permission. It is stated that the applications named "com.mufc" provide the suspicious transactions in question. These apps cannot be downloaded from the Android app store Google Play Store.

Secure-D purchased the Tecno W2 model to investigate the large number of suspicious transactions. As a result of the examination, a preinstalled virus named Triada was detected in Tecno W2 devices manufactured by Transsion. It has been stated that the Triada virus is hidden within the system components of the device so that it is not noticed and can have high-level privileges. Triada, which gains administrative authority on the device, is a type of virus that downloads a large number of malware to the device. 

In the study by Secure-D, the Triada software, which came preloaded after the Tecno W2 device was connected to the Internet, downloaded a trojan named xHelper. It is almost impossible to delete the xHelper virus that has taken control of the device. Creating a backdoor in the device, xHelper downloads a large number of viruses to the infected device. No statement was made from the Transsions company regarding the issue.