Xiaomi users are making a controversial claim about the company’s smartphones. According to these users, their Xiaomi smartphones have malware named Mintnav installed, which purportedly hacks the Chrome browser.
There has been no news about how this malware may have affected the smartphones. The user who first reported about it on Reddit writes:
Hey, guys I have recently seen on all my Xiaomi phones that my Google Chrome home page was changed to a site named “Mintnav”, be careful to change it, I didn’t find any documentation about this site so I think it’s a scam (a thing that I found to many time made by Xiaomi)
After catching the news, several users on Twitter/X also complained about it, with one even tagging India’s Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology.
When we attempted to gather more information about this purported malware, we encountered a lack of comprehensive details. A tutorial website, Howtoremove Guide, states “Mintnav falls into the category of browser hijacker applications, and although it may not inflict significant direct harm, it can certainly be a source of considerable annoyance and disruption to your daily web browsing activities.”
While users’ concerns are valid, it’s unclear how this unknown program made its way onto Xiaomi phones. We haven’t heard any complaints about Mintnav from users of other brands, so it’s possible that Xiaomi is somehow involved. It could be that this alleged malware appeared on Xiaomi smartphones after an update.
If you are getting this malware on your Chrome browser, you can remove it by going into your Chrome settings under “Homepage” and disabling the option or changing it to the default Chrome homepage.
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