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Company officials explained he must have downloaded malware onto his own phone. When Threatpost contacted BLU to inquire on LockmullerвЂ™s behalf, BLU once again vigorously defended its phones stating the fault was LockmullerвЂ™s. This is not an issue that rode along with a bad app or from browsing the internet,вЂќ he said. After installing Skype, I disabled the app store completely as well as the browser. вЂњThese phones only had one app installed, Skype, directly from the Google Play app store. All 11 of the BLU Studio X8 HD phones purchased from BLU Products via Amazon began to exhibit the same behavior. BLU is reaching out to several reporters to correct their articles and issue apologies.вЂќД«y this time, LockmullerвЂ™s BLU phones were so junked-up with unwanted apps and ads they were unusable, he said.

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It posted to its site: вЂњBLU Products responds to inaccuracies reported by several news outlets making clear that there is absolutely no spyware or malware or secret software on BLU devices, these are inaccurate and false reports. That incident culminated in Amazon temporarily halting the sale of the BLU phone.ДЄdups claims on its website 700 million devices, including cars and other connected devices, use its software.ДЄt the time, BLU vigorously fought the allegations leveled by the security firm Kryptowire. BLU Products was at the tail end recovering from allegations made by security firm Kryptowire in July that claimed that some BLU phones (R1 HD and Life One X2) had a backdoor and leaked personal data such as the full-body of text messages, call history and unique device identifiers to a third-party firmware company called Adups Technology Co. After all, he was giving the phone maker a second chance after rampant allegations that BLU phones were secretly siphoning off user data and sending it to a Chinese firm. The network administrator nearly blew a gasket. He must have downloaded a malicious app, he was told. When Lockmuller contacted Miami-based BLU ProductsвЂ™ technical support about his phones, he was told the problem was on his end. The phones had a mind of their own, he recalls, beeping, vibrating and constantly cycling through flashy obtrusive ads and installing apps and utilities. His phones began spewing ads for virtual slot machine games and mysteriously installing apps with no firsthand user interaction. But the apps kept reinstalling themselves,вЂќ he said. I uninstalled Setting and everything else I could. вЂњThe phone started popping up installers and displaying ads for other apps.

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вЂњAfter 14 days of acting normal, an app called Setting installed itself mysteriously on the handsets, giving itself full permissions over the phones,вЂќ Lockmuller said. Two weeks into rolling out the phones things went sideways. He installed only Skype on the devices and planned to use the $50 BLU Studio X8 HD phones as high-end walkie-talkies on a Wi-Fi network.

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When network administrator James Lockmuller bought 11 dirt-cheap Android phones via Amazon he thought he had a perfect solution for communicating with his warehouse team stretched across a 73,000 square-foot campus.

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