Google partner secretly turned 1.3 million TV boxes into a botnet
Original headline: One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet
What happened
Google says Shenzhen-based Videostrong deliberately built a backdoor into 1.3 million Android TV devices, using them for ad fraud and data exfiltration. Google dismantled it and banned the company.
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