{"id":282055,"date":"2026-06-25T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/primed-for-malware-stop-selling-compromised-android-devices\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T00:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:35:37","slug":"primed-for-malware-stop-selling-compromised-android-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/primed-for-malware-stop-selling-compromised-android-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Primed for Malware: Stop Selling Compromised Android Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2026\/06\/primed-malware-stop-selling-compromised-android-devices\">Primed for Malware: Stop Selling Compromised Android Devices<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2026\/06\/primed-malware-stop-selling-compromised-android-devices\">https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2026\/06\/primed-malware-stop-selling-compromised-android-devices<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 19:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.eff.org\">www.eff.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Time<\/span><span> and <\/span><span>time<\/span><span> again, researchers have found numerous compromised Android <\/span><span>devices<\/span><span> for sale at large online retailers like Amazon. When these devices get <\/span><span>individually<\/span><span> reported, we have seen some <\/span><span>noted<\/span><span> efforts to take them down. But this is a systemic problem and Amazon and other major online retailers must make a corresponding systemic and intentional effort to stop these devices from entering people\u2019s homes and ultimately their networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a refresher: Last year, Google <\/span><span>wrote<\/span><span> that one major campaign, deemed <\/span><span>BADBOX<\/span><span>, affected 10 million uncertified devices that were running Android\u2019s open-source software (Android Open Source Project or AOSP). These devices span from TVs and streaming devices to digital picture frames. <\/span><span>Even now<\/span><span>, someone can go on Amazon and Walmart and buy one of these devices. Not all of them come from Amazon and Walmart, but it\u2019s fair to assume since they have the <\/span><span>lion\u2019s share of the market<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most well-known Android-based devices don\u2019t come with just \u201cstock Android.\u201d The operating system is usually Android plus additional features that the manufacturer wanted. These custom versions of Android often come with pre-installed applications that range from useful to innocuous bloatware to actual malware. Many Android OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) pre-install apps that may not be visibly represented by an icon in your list of installed apps. This obscurity makes the issue particularly hard for users to identify any potential threats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since the initial BADBOX analysis, there have been <\/span><span>more<\/span> <span>reports<\/span><span> of large campaigns and clusters of <\/span><span>different devices<\/span><span> participating in malicious activities that utilize people\u2019s home networks to engage in illegal activity. Task forces in the private sector have made <\/span><span>an effort<\/span><span> to take down these existing <\/span><span>Command and Control<\/span><span> structures, but <\/span><span>these actors may pivot and evolve<\/span><span> to flood the market with more devices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Online retailers can stop this cycle. A multi-billion dollar company like Amazon should&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2026\/06\/primed-malware-stop-selling-compromised-android-devices\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primed for Malware: Stop Selling Compromised Android Devices https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2026\/06\/primed-malware-stop-selling-compromised-android-devices Publish Date: 2026-06-25 19:39:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/files\/banner_library\/malware-shark.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,32],"class_list":["post-282055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282057,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282055\/revisions\/282057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}