> A Chinese manufacturer (possibly many manufacturers) builds a wide variety of Android-based devices, including phones, tablets, and CTV boxes. At some point b

> A Chinese manufacturer (possibly many manufacturers) builds a wide variety of Android-based devices, including phones, tablets, and CTV boxes. At some point between the manufacturing of these products and their delivery to resellers, physical retail stores and e-commerce warehouses, a firmware backdoor— based on Triada malware—gets installed and the product boxes are sealed in plastic, priming these devices for fraud on arrival at their destination. It is probably not the case in this instance, but the NSA TAO does this for a living.