A Russian security firm’identified the first mass distributed Android bootkit malware called ”, a piece of malware that’s designed to re-infect devices after reboot, even if you delete all working components of it. China seems to a mass victim of this kind of malware having a 92% share. The bootkit is a rootkit variant which infects the device at start-up and may encrypt disk or steal data, remove the application, open connection for. Command and controller. After flashing flashing, the bootkit will be removed.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/01/first-widely-distributed-android.html