Alcatel phones came packed with preinstalled malware

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Whether we are talking about Alcatel or TCL, one of the companies is guilty of malware on the phone. None of them is extremely po[CENSORED]r on the current market, but such situations only remove the few remaining customers.

In 2018, the company was involved in a similar controversy because it had applications with pre-installed adware on phones. Now, it seems to have taken things further and delivers phones with preinstalled malware. In some cases, it collects data, and in others it can subscribe users to various paid services without them being aware of it.

The "Weather Forecast-World Weather Accurate Radar" application, developed by TCL and pre-installed on Alcatel phones, is to blame for the situation. It collects various data: IMEI, email addresses, and location history, among others, and then sends them to a TCL server.
The application runs and adware in the background, and they consume 50 - 250 MB of data. The most dubious activity was subscribing to premium phone users. If there was no Secure-D platform, customers in Brazil and other countries would have paid about $ 1.5 million for nothing.

 

At the moment, it's not clear how malware came in the weather application on Alcatel phones. One theory claims that TCL's development systems have been compromised. This may not be the direct fault of Alcatel or Alcatel for malware, but they remain guilty of negligence, especially since this is not the first time this happens.