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| Gionee Found Guilty By Chinese Court For Planting Malware by ddjay(op): 8:11am On Dec 07, 2020 |
The Chinese court has published a verdict on a case involving the Chinese smartphone maker Gionee. It seems that Gionee planted a Trojan Horse on more than 20 million devices to get money from unsolicited ads and other malicious activities without the user's knowledge. The Shenzhen Zhipu Technology Co. Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Gionee, has implanted a Trojan Horse through a software update using the so-called "Story Lock Screen" app. The first devices infected with the "Dark Horse Program" were in December 2018. The job was carried out until October 2019 and for that period, the company is said to have earned around $4.2 million, affecting 21.75 million smartphones. The expenses for that period are just a little below $1.3 million. Xu Li, Zhu Ying, Jia Zhengqiang and Pan Qi were found guilty in the process of illegally controlling mobile devices and are sentenced from 3 to 3.5 years in prison along with a CNY 200,000 (~$30,000) fine each. Although shocking, this seems to be a common practice with cheap Chinese smartphones and other companies were also found guilty of the same malicious activity, Infinix and Tecno are two of them. gsmarena.com https://m.gsmarena.com/chinese_finds_gionee_guilty_of_planting_malware_on_more_than_20_million_units-amp-46613.php |
| Re: Gionee Found Guilty By Chinese Court For Planting Malware by rapcy(m): 8:12am On Dec 07, 2020 |
 Thief catch thief |
| Re: Gionee Found Guilty By Chinese Court For Planting Malware by ddjay(op): 8:17am On Dec 07, 2020 |
rapcy: |
| Re: Gionee Found Guilty By Chinese Court For Planting Malware by kennyflames(m): 9:23am On Dec 07, 2020 |
These people are sick how can dey infect their devices with trogan horse damn i bet dem don dey on Google watchlist
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| Re: Gionee Found Guilty By Chinese Court For Planting Malware by ddjay(op): 10:00am On Dec 07, 2020 |
kennyflames:So that it will fetch money for them, all those anoying ads that are hard to stop are a good example of this 1 Like |
| Re: Gionee Found Guilty By Chinese Court For Planting Malware by credon: 6:36pm On Dec 07, 2020 |
Ha, am seeing tecno and infinix there, this means the whole world knows about it |
| Re: Gionee Found Guilty By Chinese Court For Planting Malware by ddjay(op): 6:43pm On Dec 07, 2020 |
credon:Abi o |
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