LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
2026-07-23T07:23:29Z•e5e287007e6c17234856f494c3996178bf2c8105e6f2737999fb30c152e7f787
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What happened
A series of 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 parties to route traffic through users’ TVs. The FBI seized hundreds of domains tied to NetNut and the Popa botnet (linked to Alarum/NetNut), a multi-year scheme leveraging millions of compromised TV boxes and Android devices to provide residential proxy services. Microsoft released an unusually large Patch Tuesday — 570 fixes — attributing the surge to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery. CISA published a postmortemd
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- 2026-07-23T07:23:29Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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