Smartphone Malware Planted In Popular Apps Pre-sale

An anonymous reader writes with news from The Stack that makes it a little harder to scoff at malware on phones as being largely the fruit of dodgy sideloaded software, game cracks, et cetera. They report that even phones marketed as brand new, from well-known brands like Lenovo and Xiaomi, have been tampered with and "infected prior to sale with intelligent malware disguised in popular apps such as Facebook." (To U.S. buyers, those makers may be slightly obscure as cellphone vendors; the scheme this article addresses involves handsets sold by vendors in Europe and Asia, involving more than 20 different handset types.)

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Re:Lenovo

[willworkforbeer]

Does Lenovo make ANYTHING anymore that isn't full of malware?

I found one possibility, but I haven't personally checked it for malware: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILib...