The last thing you want your smartphone doing is sending your text messages, contacts, and location history to a server in China. But according to mobile security firm Kryptowire, a particularly nasty ...

The backdoor found in the firmware of various low-end Android smartphones, which was traced back to a Chinese company, was active since July this year, according to mobile security firm Trustlook. The ...

They say good things never last and bad things last for ages. That seems to be the case with AdUps, a Chinese "technology firm" that was blatantly installing spyware on countless of Android ...

Spyware called Adups found on millions of low-end phones is still collecting personal identifiable information of users despite public outcry. LAS VEGAS—Shanghai Adups Technology Co. was roundly ...

ADUPS maintains the software (firmware updater) was written long ago at the request of an unidentified Chinese manufacturer that wanted the ability to store call logs, text messages, and other data ...

ADUPS is an Android "firmware provisioning" company based out of Shanghai, China. The software specializes both in Big Data collection of Android usage, and hostile app installation and/or firmware ...

On April 30, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) reached a settlement with BLU Products Inc., a Florida-based cellphone reseller, after BLU admitted it allowed a third party, China-based ADUPS ...

A Chinese technology firm has been siphoning text messages and call records from cheap Android-based mobile smart phones and secretly sending the data to servers in China, researchers revealed this ...

Barnes & Noble debuted its $50 NOOK last month, but forgot to announce that it came with spyware pre-installed on its device. The new NOOK came with an ADUPS program that granted a third-party access ...

Despite ADUPS publicly announcing that its data snooping on 700 million Android smartphones was a “technical mistake”, the New York Times has said that American authorities say it is not clear whether ...