LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
2026-07-24T19:23:28Z•1c6376847340340b683abb7c0f6af26bfc33b217ed778257de1a80c0154db5d4
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What happened
A series of KrebsOnSecurity reports in June–July 2026 highlight large-scale abuse of consumer devices and serious operational security failures: researchers linked the Popa Android-based botnet to NetNut/Alarum Technologies and documented millions of compromised TV boxes being used as residential proxy nodes; the FBI seized NetNut-related domains and disrupted the Popa infrastructure; LG said it will ban apps that turn smart TVs into always-on residential proxies after researchers found ~42% of apps could be abused. Separately, Microsoft released an unprecedented Patch Tuesday fixing ~570 bugs
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- Source ID
- krebs_on_security
- Record identifier
- 1c6376847340340b683abb7c0f6af26bfc33b217ed778257de1a80c0154db5d4
- Enrichment time
- 2026-07-24T19:23:28Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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