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LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
LG Electronics USA plans to suspend smart TV apps that turn televisions into residential proxy nodes, following research revealing that over 42% of apps on its webOS store allow third parties to route internet traffic through users' TVs without their knowledge. The announcement comes less than a month after that research was published.
‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm
A years-long Android botnet called Popa has hijacked millions of consumer TV boxes to relay traffic tied to ad fraud, account takeovers, and data scraping. Security researchers have linked the operation to NetNut, a residential proxy service run by Alarum Technologies, a publicly traded Israeli company listed on NASDAQ.