LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
2026-07-24T07:23:31Z•c12dc4151a285a789a910c7024ef64220f2c1eb05b664de6e3a85c70d2751b3a
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KrebsOnSecurity highlights multiple high-impact security developments: LG will ban smart-TV apps that turn sets into always-on residential proxy nodes after researchers found many webOS apps allow third-party traffic routing; the FBI seized domains tied to NetNut and the Popa botnet, which researchers link to publicly-traded Alarum Technologies and millions of compromised Android TV boxes; Microsoft released patches for a record 570 vulnerabilities (Microsoft attributes the surge to AI-assisted discovery); CISA published a postmortem after a contractor exposed internal credentials, including A
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