In April 2025, Kaspersky reported on a then-new iteration of the Triada backdoor that had compromised the firmware of counterfeit Android devices sold across major marketplaces.
The malware was deployed to the system partitions and hooked into Zygote – the parent process for all Android apps – to infect any app on the device. This allowed the Trojan to exfiltrate credentials from messaging apps and social media platforms, among other things. This discovery prompted Kaspersky researchers to dive deeper, looking for other Android firmware-level threats.
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Source: Kaspersky
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