LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
2026-07-25T13:23:28Z•a412600d88673d416fcfde4a221ece6326aa460f7cc619737460b7835f8d6eb5
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What happened
This collection of KrebsOnSecurity items highlights multiple high-impact cyber incidents and trends: law enforcement actions and industry fallout from large-scale residential-proxy abuse (FBI seizure of NetNut domains tied to the Popa botnet that abused millions of consumer TV devices; LG moving to ban apps that turn smart TVs into residential proxy nodes); a record Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixing 570 vulnerabilities (Microsoft attributes rising counts to AI-assisted discovery); a CISA postmortem after a contractor leaked internal credentials — including AWS GovCloud keys — on GitHub; abuse of
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