{"id":1058,"date":"2023-09-07T12:14:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2023-09-07T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:14:41","slug":"pandora-malware-attacks-android-tvs-via-firmware-updates-and-pirated-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/pandora-malware-attacks-android-tvs-via-firmware-updates-and-pirated-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora Malware Attacks Android TVs via Firmware Updates and Pirated Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new threat to Android devices named android[.]pandora has been identified that compromises the devices when pirated video content is installed or during firmware updates.<\/p>\n<p>This malware belongs to the variant of Mirai Trojan, which has been used to infect smart devices and utilize a network of remotely controlled bots or \u201czombies\u201d to launch DDOS.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Web has identified this malware as Android.Pandora.10 and its capabilities and shared the detailed report on its official page.<\/p>\n<p>This malware targets users of Android TV-based devices with lower prices, especially users of the Tanix TX6 TV Box, MX10 Pro 6K, and H96 MAX X3.<\/p>\n<p>Pandoraspearrk \u2013 Identified in the virus database as the Android[.]Pandora[.]2 backdoors and used to perform DDoS.<\/p>\n<p>The supervisord \u2013 monitors the status of the pandoraspearrk executable and restarts the backdoor if it is terminated.<\/p>\n<p>s.conf \u2013 stored the settings for Supervisord<\/p>\n<p>The busybox and curl command-line utilities with the same name are included for networking and file system operations.<\/p>\n<p>This malware can be installed as part of a firmware update available for download on several places as Android Open Source Project test keys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritynews.com\/pandora-malware-attacks-android-tvs\/\">Read the Full Story Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Cybersecurity News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new threat to Android devices named android[.]pandora has been identified that compromises the devices when pirated video content is installed or during firmware updates. 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