▲ 2 ▼ Shutting the Door on the XCPE Botnet (cloud.google.com) submitted 5 days ago by digicat@infosec.pub to c/blueteamsec@infosec.pub comment fedilink hide all child comments
▲ 28 ▼ 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) submitted 6 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/tech@piefed.world 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.