{"id":845427,"date":"2024-08-17T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T04:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=845427"},"modified":"2024-08-17T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T04:39:55","slug":"google-pixel-phones-shipped-with-secret-backdoor-security-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/17\/google-pixel-phones-shipped-with-secret-backdoor-security-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pixel phones shipped with secret backdoor, security experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Pixel phones have been found to have a secret backdoor that could have given hackers free control over user devices. According to a joint analysis by mobile security firm iVerify, Palantir Technologies, and Trail of Bits, a significant number of Pixel devices shipped worldwide since September 2017 contained a dormant app named \u201cShowcase.apk\u201d. This app is equipped with extensive system privileges, enabling it to remotely execute code and install software without user consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Pixel phones have been found to have a secret backdoor that could have given hackers free control over user devices. According to a joint analysis by mobile security firm iVerify, Palantir Technologies, and Trail of Bits, a significant number of Pixel devices shipped worldwide since September 2017 contained a dormant app named \u201cShowcase.apk\u201d. This app is equipped with extensive system privileges, enabling it to remotely execute code and install software without user consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845427","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}