About 8 years ago one of our devs purchased a couple Android tablets from China to test if they would work as a host for Smoothieware (and/or 3d printers).
It had malware prebundled at the ROM level. You could not remove it by wiping Android (IIRC..our dev that tracked the issue said he had to block what it was doing). The tablet forced your homepage...regardless of what you set it to...and I believe he said it was phoning home info...likely wifi credentials...etc.
It started me off on the thought process of "How many other things can be compromised?" SD cards with fake/hidden partitions? MCU counterfeits with entire subsystems?
IMHO...anything with an ethernet port, wifi, bluetooth...or anything that is able to at any time connect to those things needs to be watched.
It started me off on the thought process of "How many other things can be compromised?" SD cards with fake/hidden partitions? MCU counterfeits with entire subsystems?
IMHO...anything with an ethernet port, wifi, bluetooth...or anything that is able to at any time connect to those things needs to be watched.