LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
2026-07-26T07:23:27Z•57ce5d9db8215240196ee9f8f1d0ef720af9789f610863ccdf71e416fb2e1628
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What happened
A batch of high-impact security stories: LG will ban smart-TV apps that turn sets into always-on residential proxy nodes after researchers found >42% of webOS apps could route third-party traffic. The FBI seized hundreds of domains tied to NetNut and the Popa botnet — an Android/TV-based proxy network of ~2 million compromised devices linked to publicly-traded Alarum Technologies. Microsoft released a record-sized patch rollout fixing ~570 vulnerabilities (Microsoft says AI-assisted discovery drove the increase). CISA published a postmortem after a contractor exposed dozens of internal secrets
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