LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
2026-07-23T13:23:26Z•24fa184939191743537a6f698417f53bdf415c4dfbc177b94b3b01951c2c006c
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What happened
A series of high-impact cybersecurity developments: LG will ban smart TV apps that convert sets into always-on residential proxy nodes after researchers found >42% of webOS apps allow third-party traffic routing. Multiple reports link the Popa Android botnet—used for ad fraud, account takeovers and scraping—to NetNut, a residential-proxy provider owned by publicly traded Alarum Technologies, prompting an FBI domain seizure. Microsoft released a record-sized Patch Tuesday (about 570 fixes), attributing the surge to AI-aided vulnerability discovery. CISA issued a postmortem after a contractor’s
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