LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
2026-07-24T13:23:27Z•e85b7cc545e88e650b89e89714125085056bb016472e78d3d1db46314fb12b16
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What happened
Multiple KrebsOnSecurity reports in July 2026 highlight a cluster of high-impact operational security issues: a large-scale residential-proxy abuse campaign (Popa botnet) linked to NetNut/Alarum Technologies and leading to an FBI domain seizure and vendor scrutiny; LG moving to ban smart‑TV apps that convert TVs into always‑on residential proxy nodes; and continued ecosystem risk from marketplaces and vendors (a dubious offensive‑security startup buying zero‑days). Microsoft released an unusually large Patch Tuesday (570 fixes) — Microsoft attributes the spike to AI‑assisted vulnerability find
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- Source ID
- krebs_on_security
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- e85b7cc545e88e650b89e89714125085056bb016472e78d3d1db46314fb12b16
- Enrichment time
- 2026-07-24T13:23:27Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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