The Hidden Life of Cheap Streaming Devices An inexpensive set-top box connected to your television could be generating illicit revenue long after the screen goes dark, entirely without your knowledge. Cybersecurity researchers at Bitsight...
The Katana botnet has usurped no fewer than thirty thousand Android-based television set-top boxes, transfiguring these economical apparatuses into a formidable staging ground for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) bombardments. The vanguard at Nokia Deepfield ERT...
The cybercriminals orchestrating the Kimwolf botnet appear intent on flaunting a truly monumental acquisition. A screenshot has surfaced online purportedly demonstrating their infiltration of the control panel for Badbox 2.0, one of the world’s...
Since the autumn of the previous year, the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies has successfully decommissioned over 550 command-and-control servers tethered to the AISURU and Kimwolf botnets. These malevolent networks persist as...
When you procure an inexpensive, unbranded Android TV box, connect it to your television, and relegate it to the periphery of your attention for years, you may unwittingly be harboring a silent sentinel. Within...
The Kimwolf botnet has drawn intense scrutiny after researchers at QiAnXin XLab reported that it had infected more than 1.8 million Android-based devices. The compromised army includes smart TVs, set-top boxes, and tablets, all...
One of the most popular unofficial YouTube clients for Android TV has been compromised — a malicious build infiltrated the SmartTube application, signed with the developer’s stolen keys. The incident has raised serious concerns...
