{"id":1046753,"date":"2026-11-03T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046753"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:33:03","slug":"google-chinese-company-partner-for-android-devices-secretly-turned-1-3-million-devices-into-spy-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/03\/google-chinese-company-partner-for-android-devices-secretly-turned-1-3-million-devices-into-spy-gadgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chinese company, partner for Android devices, secretly turned 1.3 million devices into &#8216;spy gadgets&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google revealed that it has severed ties with one of its Android manufacturing partners after discovering that the company allegedly built a secret backdoor into more than 1.3 million devices, allowing them to be turned into a massive botnet and used for malicious activities without the knowledge of their owner. According to a report by The Verge, Google identified the manufacturer as Videostrong Co, which is a Shenzhen-based company that produced Android-powered devices. Google said that it has now banned the company from building or selling certified Android devices and from supplying software for them.<\/p>\n<p>Devices secretly enrolled into a botnet said Google<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google revealed that it has severed ties with one of its Android manufacturing partners after discovering that the company allegedly built a secret backdoor into more than 1.3 million devices, allowing them to be turned into a massive botnet and used for malicious activities without the knowledge of their owner. According to a report by The Verge, Google identified the manufacturer as Videostrong Co, which is a Shenzhen-based company that produced Android-powered devices. Google said that it has now banned the company from building or selling certified Android devices and from supplying software for them. Devices secretly enrolled into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046754,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046753\/revisions\/1046754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}