Inside XCPE, the botnet that turned 1.3M set-top boxes into proxy servers

Security Affairs RSS collection covering major cybersecurity developments, including the disruption of the XCPE Android set-top-box botnet that reportedly enrolled more than 1.3 million devices for proxy abuse and ad fraud, AI-assisted infostealing and attack techniques, mercenary spyware targeting public officials, attacks on industrial refrigeration and emergency alert systems, a Chainalysis data-security incident, and a North Korea-attributed cryptocurrency theft. The most significant item is the large-scale XCPE botnet and proxy-abuse operation, while several other reports describe high-se