US government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware

The article shows how to uninstall it. How does that make it unremovable? The uninstall procedure is fully stock, just a slightly different path than most are used to. Most people hold the icon and drag it to the uninstall text. This goes into the app's info screen from where you can click uninstall.

Chinese malware on a Chinese phone given to US citizens at a massive discount..<p>Sounds like a brilliant cyber-espionage tactic.

I&#x27;m not American but what are &quot;United States government-funded phones&quot; for? Why anyone wants to use it? The article doesn&#x27;t give much context...

Most corporate issued phones and computers come with lots of pre installed malware too. Apple bakes this into MacOS too (MDM).

Am I just super jet lagged, or does Malwarebytes seem to avoid talking about what this “malware” actually does?<p>Is it just click fraud like the malware names suggest? That would hardly hurt the users.<p>Some might even think that click fraud fucking over online advertising platforms is a good thing...

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&gt; The only difference between the two codes are their variable names. The more discernible variant of this malware uses Chinese characters for variable names. Therefore, we can assume the origin of this malware is China.<p>I mean... that’s possible and not an unlikely scenario - I guess. But it’s hardly anything but an anecdote. If I was a Russian or American hacker, I would have Chinese variable names swapped out with mine before I released the code.

But, what does the malware do?

They should buy pine phones!

One can take the sim and install it any phone you like though...