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Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors

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by thenthenthen

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Wow this is pretty insane, the whole supply chain of these things might look similar to the practises described in this article: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165492

by redrove

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I’m immediately suspicious of cheap chinese crap like this.
$35 for a projector should cause you to raise at least one eyebrow.
Also, as always with “IoT” type devices, they’re best kept in an isolated VLAN with no internet access.

by DriftRegion

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This is the first time I've read an AI-heavy piece and stayed engaged with it all the way through. I think the author's sharing the prompts was key to that experience.

by shmeeed

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Like many people, I've always been vaguely suspicious of IoT devices like these. But I've never seen reverse engineered what it is they actually do. The conclusion goes way beyond my expectations and is rather chilling:
>My $35 projector wasn't just spying on me. It was selling my network. Anyone who paid Kookeey for proxy access could route their traffic through my IP

by firesteelrain

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by wordsarelies

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The us gov should pay for this sort of research to be published... bonus points for binaries.

by l23k4

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This would typically not be referred to as a "remote access trojan". It's just an updater, or perhaps a dropper if you want to make it sound more scary.

by ashout33

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