How The Android Malware That Survives Factory Reset Works

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Not a representative tl;dr. It is indeed curious that it comes back on cheap Chinese phones even after reflashing the default ROM. But the article doesn't say it primarily relies on manufacturers installing backdoors. It also affects phones that are not backdoored, and on those, reflashing will remove it. And anyway, the article is so short that it doesn't need a tl;dr.