Xiaomi Mi4 LTE smartphone has been found to be shipped with pre-loaded spyware/adware and a “forked” version of Android operating system on top of that. Xiaomi, which had previously been criticized for secretly stealing users’ information from the device without the user’s permissions. The top selling Android smartphone in China, Xiaomi, is also known as Apple of China, with more than 25,000 units sold out in just 15 seconds on India’s online retailer Flipkart.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/03/Xiaomi-Mi-4-malware.html