Hackers Could Turn 'Guard Provider' On Xiaomi Smartphones Into Malware

According to a Checkpoint’s research, a malware coming as a piece of built-in Guard Provider app in Xiaomi devices has been discovered. Instead of keeping using the old version, the security firm alerts Xiaomi users to install the latest security software of Xiaomi. As per some recent numbers of IDC, Xiaomi is the leader with 28.9% of shares in the Indian smartphone market and at least 150 million devices have been pre-installed this antivirus app, followed by the Korean giant Samsung and other brands.

According to the report, when the inbuilt app gets installed on every Xiaomi smartphone, all of them will start falling prey to the flaw. We totally cannot figure out what could be worse than this, if the software built up to protect your phone then it became a threat itself. A researcher from Check Point claimed that the fatal flaw is due to a connection that uses unsecured HTTPs.

Thanks to Checkpoint, Xiaomi has come up with a patch to solve the problem after it knew the vulnerability, which would cause to a serious consequence to every Xiaomi user as well as the company itself.

In addition, using some anti-virus apps to scan potential malware is in urgent need.