04 July 2026 - 12:22
Category: Trust Issues
Your smart TV is a cyber criminal.
The feds seized a proxy network that turned millions of smart TVs into botnet soldiers. At least your television was doing some hard work.
Source: Krebs on Security
The Full Story
It turns out two million smart TVs and streaming boxes were secretly working a second job routing password spraying and credential stuffing attacks for the NetNut proxy network. The lucky owners of these compromised devices had no idea their living rooms were hosting international cybercrime. Thankfully, the FBI and international police stepped in to seize hundreds of these malicious domains. Relying on federal law enforcement to clean up our IoT mess seems to be our main defense strategy these days.