LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
2026-07-22T19:23:31Z•88ff4c91fe667782816ab5a944c279f66f53af32ca8bc1e3c9c2f2089d2ffc0f
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What happened
A cluster of high-impact cybersecurity developments: law enforcement seized domains tied to NetNut/Alarum after research linked the Popa Android-based botnet (millions of compromised TV/OTT devices) to a commercial residential-proxy service used for ad fraud, scraping and account takeovers; LG will ban apps that turn smart TVs into residential proxy nodes. CISA published a postmortem after a contractor accidentally exposed internal credentials (including AWS GovCloud keys) on GitHub for months. Microsoft released an unusually large July patch batch (≈570 flaws), attributing the spike to AI-aid
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- 2026-07-22T19:23:31Z
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