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Google says Android TV box maker Videostrong infected its own users and sold the access to criminals. They built a backdoor into the firmware of 1.3M+ set-top boxes. If a user deleted it, it came back on the next reboot. (cloud.google.com)
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Buyers turned the boxes into residential proxies and ad-fraud bots.

Google has banned Videostrong from certified Android and says the takedown also cuts off at least 10M more infected devices.

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Shutting the Door on the XCPE Botnet (cloud.google.com)
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