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Xiaomi says smartphone full of security problems was a fake

posted onMarch 11, 2015
by l33tdawg

A smartphone maker says that a firm's security analysis of one of its phones was actually done on a counterfeit device.

Last week, Bluebox Security said that it tested a legitimate Xiaomi Mi 4 LTE device, a popular smartphone in China, only to find that it was pre-loaded with “suspicious apps”, categorised as malware, spyware or adware.

Bluebox also said that phone was vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities and that several conflicting API build properties were observed on the device. Although Bluebox Lead Security Analyst Andrew Blaich said, at the time, that the phone was first verified to be a legitimate device by Xiaomi (since the phone was popular among counterfeiters) – further testing showed that the smartphone was, indeed, a fake, a follow up blog post by Blaich said Sunday US time.

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