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BLU R1 HD phones are still selling your details

by on27 July 2017


Beware the good deal


Cheap phones might be coming at the price of your privacy, security analysts from Kryptowire have discovered.

Kryptowire was inspired to look at cheap phones after the BLU R1 HD, the top-selling phone on Amazon, which can be picked up for $60, was discovered sending private data to China.

The product’s makers, Shanghai Adups Technology, said at the time it was a mistake, but Kryptowire found the software provider is still making the same "mistake" on other phones.

At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas yesterday, Kryptowire, revealed that Adups' software was still sending a device's data to the company's server in Shanghai without alerting people.

However now it is being more secretive about it. Kryptowire research engineer and co-founder Ryan Johnson said that the spying software has been replaced them with a nicer version.

"I have captured the network traffic of them using the Command and Control channel when they did it."

Kryptowire said it has observed the company sending data without telling users on at least three different phones.

An Adups spokeswoman said that it had resolved the problem in 2016 and that the issues "are not existing anymore".

 

Last modified on 27 July 2017
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