While it's not hard for an unsophisticated user to contract malware on an Android phone, Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi may have made the entire process a little bit easier. The Xiaomi Mi4 LTE, a top-selling smartphone in China, reportedly comes with malware built-in and a shoddy, vulnerable version of Android on top of that. Using several Android antivirus scanners, Bluebox discovered that the phone contained at least six shady apps. The first, Yt Service, enables a piece of adware known as DarthPusher, which fills the device with intrusive ads.



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