LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
2026-07-25T19:23:28Z•3d4397ea22a89e9aab11e9cb33965f6afba65a2e1556bad4d64f7476bee7d93a
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What happened
Feed of July 2026 security developments: LG will ban smart TV apps that turn sets into always‑on residential proxy nodes after researchers found many webOS apps permit third‑party traffic routing. Multiple stories expose large‑scale residential proxy abuse — including the Popa Android botnet (millions of compromised TV boxes) tied to NetNut/Alarum Technologies and an FBI domain seizure. Microsoft released a record number of patches (570 flaws), attributed in part to AI‑aided vuln discovery. CISA issued a postmortem after a contractor leaked internal credentials (including AWS GovCloud keys) to
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