Archived New strain of Android malware is 'virtually impossible' to remove (engadget.com)
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Archived New strain of Android malware is 'virtually impossible' to remove (engadget.com)
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Also older devices with well-known security vulnerabilities which are commonly used to root them. The malware app first uses those to gain root privileges which in turn are used to persist it as a privileged system app on the normally read-only system partition, which is resistant against a factory reset (= data partition wipe).