Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

2026-06-06T13:24:12Z0ade6c9f2455fd4013174057bca1cf95b6c798109c67dd5fe2b643b9dc8877d9
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What happened

This collection of The Hacker News stories reports multiple high-impact security events: Bright Data’s SDK reportedly turns consumer devices (including always-on smart TVs) into exit nodes for large-scale web scraping; CISA added SolarWinds Serv-U DoS (CVE-2026-28318) and a Magento RCE (CVE-2026-45247) to its KEV catalog; Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN Manager (CVE-2026-20245) is being actively exploited with no patch available; Everest Forms Pro suffers a critical RCE (CVE-2026-3300) being actively exploited; Cisco Unified CM (CVE-2026-20230) was patched after PoC exploit code went public; Redis had a

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