谷歌表示，其安卓制造合作伙伴之一秘密在130万台设备中植入后门，并将其变为僵尸网络。该公司称现已拆除该后门，并已与制造商——总部位于中国深圳的维强科技有限公司“断绝关系”，后者被禁止制造或销售经认证的安卓设备，或为其提供软件。
Google says one of its Android manufacturing partners secretly built a backdoor in 1.3 million devices and turned them into a botnet. The company says it has now dismantled the backdoor and "cut ties" with the manufacturer, the Shenzhen, China-based Videostrong Technology Co., which has been banned from building or selling certified Android devices or supplying software for them.
受感染设备在所有者不知情的情况下被用于“恶意活动”，如广告欺诈、数据窃取和路由未经授权的网络流量。谷歌声称，该“后门和僵尸网络是为财务……
The infected devices were used without owners' knowledge for "malicious activity," like ad fraud, data exfiltration, and routing unauthorized network traffic. Google claims the "backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial …