Using a cheap Android streaming box? You're likely infected.

[L&LD]

Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.

arstechnica.com

 

[RMerlin]

They are late in the game on this story. Here's a video analysis of some of these payloads, from back in April:

 

[OzarkEdge]

TLDR “Friends don't let friends plug in weird IoT devices into their home networks.”

OE